Film industry — Hollywood (Calif.). – Pacifica Radio Archives

The Hollywood film unions : getting in / produced by Bruce Green.

Examination of the growing importance of unions in the film industry. Includes intervews of Haskell Wexler and Verna Fields.

August 24, 2025

A Movie lover’s guide to Hollywood / Richard Alleman ; interviewed by Jay Kugelman.

Richard Alleman, author of A Movie Lover’s Guide to Hollywood (Harper & Row), conducts an audio tour of Hollywood and the film industry.

August 24, 2025

The Inquisition in Hollywood : politics in the film community, 1930-1960 / Larry Ceplair ; interviewed by Dorothy Healey.

Author discusses his book and research on communism in the American film industry.

August 24, 2025

What constitutes an alternative cinema?

Panel discussion by filmmaker Saul Landau, Sandra Schulberg, and Kartemquin Film Collective members Jerry Blumenthal, Judy Hoffman, and Peter Kotner.

August 24, 2025

Brecht in Hollywood / produced by David Ossman.

Documentary on the life of Brecht during 1941-1947. Included are interviews with Elsa Lanchester, John Houseman, and testimony before the House on Un-American Activities.

August 24, 2025

Thirty-one films in twenty-three years / Robert Fleisher ; interviewed by Alan Farley.

Director Fleisher discusses John Huston, George C. Scott, Stacy Keach and his own films and career.

August 24, 2025

Whatever became of : Reginald Gardiner / interviewed by Richard Lamparski.

British comedian and actor discusses Greta Garbo, the Barrymores, Gracie Fields, Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy.

August 24, 2025

Whatever became of : Evelyn Keyes / interviewed by Richard Lamparski.

Richard Lamparski interviews motion picture star Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008). The star of Gone with the Wind and The Jolson Story tells how Harry Cohn tried to dictate her personal life, what Hollywood was like during the Blacklist, and about some parts she didn’t get.

August 24, 2025

Jules Feiffer at the School of Visual Arts.

Writer and satirist discusses “going Hollywood” and filmmaking.

August 24, 2025

Why Blacks have the blues in Hollywood / Cecil Brown ; interviewed by Adam Hochschild ; produced by Buster Gonzales.

Problems facing black comedy writers in a white-dominated Hollywood.

August 24, 2025