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The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

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1181: 1377: 225:, which has videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors, Dean Valentine (former Disney Television and UPN president) was inspired to create a similar project for television. Valentine developed and presented a proposal to the TV Academy, under then-president Richard H. Frank and Academy Foundation Chairman Thomas W. Sarnoff. 407:
TV Foundation Chairs Jerry Petry and Emeritus Thomas W. Sarnoff guide the day-to-day operations of the Archive. Archive staff, professors, scholars and journalists from around the country volunteer their time to conduct these interviews. The Foundation employs a small staff who prepare all of the
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Beginning in early 1996, the Archive of American Television completed its first six interviews as part of its pilot stage. The initial six interviews were with Elma Farnsworth, widow and lab assistant to the inventor of electronic television
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The project has interviewed over 850 television pioneers and has posted over 500 videotaped interviews online. It is their ultimate goal to be the world's largest and most advanced oral history collection on the
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are the Archive's founding co-chairs. The creation of the Archive of American Television was co-founded and executive produced by Michael Rosen and overseen by
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Thousands of hours of historic interviews have been completed with over 850 TV legends. Full-length video interviews currently online include actors
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research and questions in advance. Local video crews photograph each interview.
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Archive of video interviews relating to American television
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Archive of American Television
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation
North Hollywood, Los Angeles
television
history of television
Tony Randall
Fess Parker
William Shatner
Betty White
Alan Alda
James Garner
Mary Tyler Moore
Dick Van Dyke
Ossie Davis
Carol Burnett
Michael J. Fox
Norman Lear
Carl Reiner
Chris Carter
Steven Bochco
Phil Rosenthal
Chuck Barris
Sherwood Schwartz
Fred Rogers
Dick Wolf
Walter Cronkite
Ed Bradley
Bob Schieffer
David Brinkley
Fred Silverman

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