- The Mike Wallace Interview
"The Mike Wallace Interview" is a series of 30-minute television interviews conducted by host Mike Wallace in 1957-60. Before "The Mike Wallace Interview" was televised nationally on prime-time in 1957, the host of the show had risen to prominence a year earlier with "Night-Beat," a television interview program that aired in New York City.
The Ransom Center Collection
In the early 1960s, Mike Wallace donated
kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence, to the Ransom Center atThe University of Texas at Austin .On April 4, 2008, the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin hosted online 65 of the interviews from 1957-58. 60 of the 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor, with the remaining five on audio tape.
The 16mm films were transferred to video and, along with the audio tapes, were digitized. The interviews were then transcribed and were both embedded in the video files in the form of subtitles. Also included on the website are text files of the transcripts of each program. Copyrights for all of the interviews are held by Mike Wallace.
The interviews hosted by The Ransom Center Collection include the following:
Steve Allen , comedian, musician, and television personalityHarry Ashmore , editor of theArkansas Gazette inLittle Rock andPulitzer Prize winnerDiana Barrymore , actor, daughter of actorJohn Barrymore Margaret Sanger , leader of thebirth control movement in AmericaFrank Lloyd Wright , American architectKirk Douglas , American actorEleanor Roosevelt , wife ofFranklin D. Roosevelt Pearl Buck ,Pulitzer andNobel Prize -winning novelistOscar Hammerstein , Broadway lyricistPeter Ustinov , actor, playwright, director, and novelistSalvador Dali , Spanishsurrealist painterReinhold Niebuhr , theologianWilliam O. Douglas ,US Supreme Court JusticeAldous Huxley , author and social criticErich Fromm , psychoanalyst and social criticAdlai Stevenson , formerUS presidential candidate Henry Kissinger , formerUS Secretary of State underRichard M. Nixon Robert Hutchins , educational philosopher, former dean ofYale Law School , former president and chancellor ofThe University of Chicago Mortimer Adler , American philosopher and authorExternal links
* [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/ The Mike Wallace Interview]
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