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[Interview with Tim Robbins : raw footage]

Title
[Interview with Tim Robbins : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
Publication
New York, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Robbins, Tim, 1958-
  • Kantor, Michael, 1961-
  • Squires, Buddy
  • Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
  • Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (38 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Actor, director, screenwriter, producer and political activist Tim Robbins speaks about the American theater, with emphasis on the Depression-era musical The cradle will rock, the subject of his eponymous 1999 film. Robbins discusses the Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal effort to fund theater and other live artistic performances in the United States during the Great Depression. Headed by Hallie Flanagan, the FTP was best known for a series of plays called Living Newspapers which addressed socially sensitive subjects. These works soon drew criticism in Congress. Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP. The organization was progressive in its belief in racial equality and featured integrated productions. Blitzstein, Houseman and Welles collaborated on the controversial FTP production of The Cradle Will Rock. One of the first musicals to address societal problems, the show concerned the efforts of the power elite to stamp out labor unrest at a steel mill. In an attempt to stop the production government authorities locked the theater, but Houseman and Welles presented the show anyway, in a spontaneous staging at a different theater uptown. Robbins also discusses actors' failure to exercise their freedom of speech; government repression of artists and artistic expression; the wide ranging forms of the American musical; the redevelopment of Times Square; the limitless possibilities afforded by the musical theater; shows he saw as a child; and his view on the Disney Company production The lion king.
Alternative Title
  • Broadway, the American musical
  • Broadway film project : Hirschfeld Robbins
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Musicals.
  • Unedited footage.
Note
  • 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, audio continues without sound.
Credits (note)
  • Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Tim Robbins.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Tim Robbins' residence in New York, N.Y. on February 11, 2002.
Biography (note)
  • Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, 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, archival 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 2129
OCLC
145606364
Title
[Interview with Tim Robbins : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
Imprint
New York, 2002.
Credits
Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer
Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Tim Robbins.
Event
Videotaped at Tim Robbins' residence in New York, N.Y. on February 11, 2002.
Biography
Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, 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, archival 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.
Local Note
Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
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Added Author
Robbins, Tim, 1958- interviewee.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
Squires, Buddy, cameraman.
Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2129
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