Talking Film(1978)
Overview
Movie expert Elwy Yost interviews industry people on both sides of the camera, encouraging them to talk about themselves, the state of their art, and its history. The series features many famous film personalities who, along with producers, directors, designers, screenwriters, and critics, offer candid insights into the making of motion pictures.
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Season 1
80 episodes • 1978
Season 1
80 episodes • 1978
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Producer (1) | Jul 3, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Director | Jul 10, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Screenwriter | Jul 17, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Acting in the Cinema | Jul 24, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Cinematography | Jul 31, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Designing Movies | Aug 7, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Making of a Motion Picture (1) | Aug 14, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Sex and Violence in the Cinema | Aug 21, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 9 | How Movies Are Sold | Aug 28, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 10 | A Portrait of John Ford (1) | Sep 4, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Zanuck | Aug 2, 1979 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr. | Aug 3, 1979 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1) | Jan 28, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Western | Feb 4, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Hooray for Hollywood | Feb 18, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 16 | A Portrait of George Stevens (1) | Feb 25, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 17 | The Critic | Mar 24, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 18 | More Special Effects | Apr 8, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema | Apr 15, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Animators | Apr 22, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 21 | The Cinema of John Huston | Apr 28, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Cinema of Frank Capra (1) | May 6, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 23 | More Film Criticism | May 12, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Powell and Pressburger | May 13, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Thirty Years of British Cinema | May 20, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 26 | David Lean and Sir Carol Reed | May 27, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Women in the Cinema | Jun 3, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 28 | The Serial | Jun 10, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 29 | The Cinema of Henry Hathaway | Jun 17, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 30 | The Business of Directing | Jul 4, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 31 | The Making of a Motion Picture (2) | Jul 11, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 32 | The Making of a Motion Picture (3) | Jul 18, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 33 | A Conversation with Pauline Kael | Jul 22, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema | Jul 29, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 35 | The Cinema of Elia Kazan | Aug 12, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 36 | Anatomy of Suspense | Aug 19, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 37 | The Making of a Motion Picture (4) | Sep 22, 1981 | 0.0 |
| 38 | The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox | May 8, 1982 | 0.0 |
| 39 | A Conversation with Otto Preminger | Jun 5, 1982 | 0.0 |
| 40 | A Portrait of George Stevens (2) | Aug 30, 1982 | 0.0 |
| 41 | A Portrait of John Ford (2) | Aug 26, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 42 | A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Aug 31, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 43 | The Producer (3) | Sep 15, 1983 | 0.0 |
| 44 | Two Film Critics | Jun 6, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 45 | An Interview with Samuel Fuller | Jun 7, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 46 | Women in the Cinema: The Writer | Jun 8, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 47 | Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger | Jun 11, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 48 | The Cinema of King Vidor | Jun 12, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 49 | The Making of a Musical | Jun 15, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 50 | The Western Revisited | Jun 25, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 51 | Music in the Cinema | Jun 26, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 52 | The Screenwriter (2) | Jul 6, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 53 | Cinematography (2) | Jul 14, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 54 | Special Effects | Jul 16, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 55 | The Cinema of Henry King | Jul 17, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 56 | The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2) | Jul 19, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 57 | Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark | Aug 1, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 58 | The Cinema of Frank Capra (2) | Aug 9, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 59 | The Classic Western | Oct 3, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 60 | An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon | Jun 12, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 61 | Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift | Jun 19, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 62 | The Marx Brothers and Their Writers | Jul 3, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 63 | The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian | Jul 10, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 64 | All Singing, All Dancing | Jul 17, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 65 | The Music Men | Jul 24, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 66 | The Screenwriter (3) | Jul 31, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 67 | Lotusland | Aug 7, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 68 | Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock | Aug 14, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 69 | The Producer (2) | Aug 19, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 70 | Stars on Stars | Aug 21, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 71 | Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen | Aug 28, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 72 | Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy | Sep 9, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 73 | Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope | Jun 30, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 74 | An Interview with Greer Garson | Jul 1, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 75 | The Preston Sturges Story (1) | Jul 2, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 76 | The Preston Sturges Story (2) | Jul 3, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 77 | Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer | Jul 4, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 78 | A Portrait of Billy Wilder | Jul 7, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 79 | Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson | Jul 8, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 80 | Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky | Jul 9, 1986 | 0.0 |
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