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 at The 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 personality

Harry Ashmore, editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock and Pulitzer Prize winner

Diana Barrymore, actor, daughter of actor John Barrymore

Margaret Sanger, leader of the birth control movement in America

Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect

Kirk Douglas, American actor

Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pearl Buck, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist

Oscar Hammerstein, Broadway lyricist

Peter Ustinov, actor, playwright, director, and novelist

Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter

Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian

William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice

Aldous Huxley, author and social critic

Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social critic

Adlai Stevenson, former US presidential candidate

Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State under Richard M. Nixon

Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, former dean of Yale Law School, former president and chancellor of The University of Chicago

Mortimer Adler, American philosopher and author

External links

* [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/ The Mike Wallace Interview]