Structured entries
- BROOKLYN BRIDGE
(1981)
John A. Roebling's 'great work of Art'
- EMPIRE OF THE AIR: The Men Who Made Radio.
1/29/92
w/ Lee de Forest; Edwin Howard Armstrong & David Sarnoff.
- THE DONNER PARTY.
10/28/92
87 settlers resort to Cannibalism.
- TRAIL OF DREAMS:
1/14/93
The Oregon Trail.
- CLIVE JAMES FAME IN THE 20TH CENTURY:
6/7/93
(Documentary/Series) Debut: Writer and British-TV personality Clive James hosts this entertaining eight-hour BBC exploration of the nature of fame in the 20th century. James begins by examining how newspapers, moving pictures and recorded sound helped propel people to fame. Among the famous figures observed: President Theodore Roosevelt (who "realized that a simple, manly image would win him fame, and fame would win him elections"), Houdini, the Red Baron, T.E. Lawrence, Lenin, Henry Ford, Rudolph Valentino, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo ("mystery made her a bigger star"), and Charlie Chaplin (pictured), who, in his day, "filled the sky as the most famous person in the world." The second hour picks up after World War I, profiling celebrities such as Al Jolson, Laurel and Hardy, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Marlene Dietrich, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Noel Coward, the Marx Brothers, Jean Harlow, Mae West, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire and Charles Lindbergh, "the greatest shy hero of all time." (2:00) Last 10 Min. on tape # 1284.
- MARTY (TV)
(1953)
w/ Rod Steiger & Nancy Marchand.
- THE BEST OF THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE.
11/25/92
- THE COMEDIAN,
2/14/57
w/ Mickey Rooney, Mel Torme, Kim Hunter & Edmund O'Brien.
By Rod Serling
- A WIND FROM THE SOUTH.
(1955)
w/ Julie Harris & Donald Woods.
- PATTERNS,
w/ Richard Kiley, Ed Begley & E. Sloane.
By Rod Serling
- NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (TV)
3/15/55
w/ Andy Griffith. Roddy McDowall
(Concl. next tape).
- AMERICA, AMERICA.
(1963)
w/ Stathis Giallis, Frank Wolff, Lou Antonio, John Marley & Estelle Hemsley.
Dir. Elia Kazan.
- HARVEST FOR THE HEART.
(1994)
w/ Ted Shackelford, Ron White, Ken Pogue, Rebecca Jenkins & Zack Ward.
- THE WATER ENGINE.
(1992)
w/ Wm. H. Macy, Patti Lupone, Joe Manteona & John Mahoney.
Transcription (raw)
## HEADING: HISTORICAL
## LEFT COLUMN
1388. KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES:
BROOKLYN BRIDGE: (1981)
John A. Roebling's 'great work of Art'
EMPIRE OF THE AIR: The Men Who Made
Radio. Lee de Forest; Edwin Howard
Armstrong & David Sarnoff. 1/29/92
THE DONNER PARTY. <1846> 10/28/92
87 settlers resort to Cannibalism.
TRAIL OF DREAMS: 1/14/93
The Oregon Trail.
1389. CLIVE JAMES FAME IN THE 20TH
CENTURY: (Documentary/Series)
Debut: Writer and British-TV personality Clive James
hosts this entertaining eight-hour BBC exploration of the
nature of fame in the 20th century.
James begins by examining how newspapers, moving
pictures and recorded sound helped propel people to
fame. Among the famous figures observed: President
Theodore Roosevelt (who "realized that a simple, manly
image would win him fame, and fame would win him elec-
tions"), Houdini, the Red Baron, T.E. Lawrence, Lenin,
Henry Ford, Rudolph Valentino, Buster Keaton, Greta
Garbo ("mystery made her a bigger star"), and Charlie
Chaplin (pictured), who, in his day, "filled the sky as the
most famous person in the world."
The second hour picks up after World War I, profiling
celebrities such as Al Jolson, Laurel and Hardy, Babe
Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke
Ellington, Marlene Dietrich, Jeanette MacDonald and Nel-
son Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mahatma
Gandhi, Noel Coward, the Marx Brothers, Jean Harlow,
Mae West, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire and Charles
Lindbergh, "the greatest shy hero of all time." (2:00)
Debut. 6/7/93
Last 10 Min. on tape # 1284.
1390. GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION:
MARTY (TV) (1953)
w/Rod Steiger & Nancy Marchand.
THE BEST OF THE HOLLYWOOD
PALACE. 11/25/92
THE COMEDIAN, By Rod Serling
w/Mickey Rooney, Mel Torme, Kim
Hunter & Edmund O'Brien. 2/14/57
A WIND FROM THE SOUTH. (1955)
w/Julie Harris & Donald Woods.
PATTERNS, By Rod Serling
w/Richard Kiley, Ed Begley & E. Sloane.
NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (TV) 3/15/55
w/Andy Griffith. Roddy McDowall
(Concl. next tape).
## RIGHT COLUMN
1391. GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION:
(Concl. of: NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS)
1392. AMERICAN DOCUMENTS: (Docu.)
Contributions by photographers &
filmmakers to historical documentation.
Debut: 2/4/92
AGE OF BALLYHOO. (1920s) 2/5/92
CHARACTERS OF OLD WEST. 2/6/92
JUST AROUND THE CORNER. (30s) 2/7/92
20/20: Barbara Walters intv.
Barbara Bush. 9/9/94
AMERICAN MASTERS: WILL ROGERS:
Narr. Edwin Newman. 12/14/94
NIGHTLINE: THE JFK TAPES.
(Cuba.) w/Ted Kopel. 12/21/94
BIOGRAPHY: BEN FRANKLIN: CITIZEN
OF THE WORLD. 2/19/95
REDISCOVERING AMERICA: THE
REAL BEN FRANKLIN. 2/29/96
1393. AMERICA, AMERICA. (1963)
Dir. Elia Kazan. w/Stathis Giallis,
Frank Wolff, Lou Antonio, John
Marley & Estelle Hemsley.
HARVEST FOR THE HEART. (1994)
w/Ted Shackelford, Ron White, Ken
Pogue, Rebecca Jenkins & Zack Ward.
THE WATER ENGINE. (1992)
w/Wm. H. Macy, Patti Lupone, Joe
Manteona & John Mahoney.
