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[Interview with Carol Channing : raw footage]

Title: [Interview with Carol Channing : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Publication: [Los Angeles,] 1997.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videocassette 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 2096 Videocassette 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videocassette 1	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 2096 Videocassette 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videocassettes (VHS) (79 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Actress Carol Channing discusses her love affair with the theater. She speaks of seeing her first musical Irving Berlin's As thousands cheer at the Kern Theater in San Francisco, in which Ethel Waters sang Suppertime, an early song addressing the subject of lynching. Channing also discusses her childhood, including performing in school from the age of seven, being an only child, and her relationship with her father; theater caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and the publication of his drawing of her as Lorelei Lee in the musical Gentlemen prefer blondes; her embodiment of the characters she portrays; Broadway audiences in comparison with other audiences; the importance of touring, and how she conducts her touring; Broadway star Ethel Merman; director Gower Champion and songwriter Jerry Herman, including their respective roles in making the musical Hello, Dolly! a success; how she keeps the role of Dolly Levy, which she has performed over 5,000 times, fresh; the American musical as a reflection of American society; seeing a predominantly Asian production of Hello, Dolly! at Lowell High School, which she formerly attended; the future of the musical; the contribution of the Russian Jewish immigrant community in New York's Lower East Side to the development of the American musical; changes to Broadway over time; and theater critic Walter Kerr.

Alternative Title

Broadway, the American musical
Interview with Carol Channing : Broadway film project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Musicals.
Unedited footage.

Note

Videcassette one: 45 min. Videocassette two: 34 min.
This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
Time code on frame.
Contains various takes; at occasional, brief intervals the audio continues without image.

Credits (note)

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Carol Channing.

Event (note)

Videotaped probably in Los Angeles, Calif. on March 19, 1997.

Biography (note)

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Call Number

NCOX 2096

OCLC

85838076

Title

[Interview with Carol Channing : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.

Imprint

[Los Angeles,] 1997.

Credits

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Carol Channing.

Event

Videotaped probably in Los Angeles, Calif. on March 19, 1997.

Biography

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

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Added Author

Channing, Carol, interviewee.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.

Squires, Buddy, cameraman.

Ghost Light Films.

Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.

Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2096

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