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Ruth Gordon, San Francisco International Film Festival 1973

Four years after the writer and actress had won an Academy Award for her supporting role in Rosemary\'s Baby, Gordon came to the Festival for a tribute in 1973. She chats at a press conference about her playwriting, the controversial romance depicted in Harold and Maude, and working with Thornton Wilder. Previously cataloged as AZ1182.

Vancouver lecture No.1 : dictation and "A Textbook of Poetry" / Jack Spicer (Part 1 of 3)

Jack Spicer's delivers his first Vancouver lecture, "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'", recorded at Warren Tallman's house in 1965. A complete transcript of this talk is available in Peter Gizzi, ed., The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998, 4-19).

Vancouver lecture No.1 : dictation and "A Textbook of Poetry" (Part 3 of 3)

This recording contains a portion of Jack Spicer's first Vancouver lecture, "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'", delivered June 13, 1965. It does not follow sequentially from BB2838B. See BB2838A and BB2838B for more details.

Vancouver lecture No.1 : dictation and "A Textbook of Poetry" / Jack Spicer (Part 2 of 3)

Jack Spicer's delivers his first Vancouver lecture, "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'", recorded at Warren Tallman's house in 1965. A complete transcript of this talk is available in Peter Gizzi, ed., The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998, 24-42).

Laurie Anderson / interviewed by Susan Sailow (Episode1 of 2, Part 1 of 2)

Laurie Anderson is a performance artist, a wonderful one. She utilizes visual techniques along with music to tell her stories about human beings, and, in particular, American human beings. She also uses many "technical tricks" on stage: harmonizers, repetitions of images, and a tape-bow violin. A very skilled performer.

A global confrontation: women vs. tradition

A forum hosted by the World Affairs Council at the Firemen's Fund Auditorium in San Francisco in 1971 on the subject of changes that have taken place in women's lives in India, Japan, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Sweden. Education, job opportunities, family living situations and legal rights are compared and contrasted.

Inferno / by August Strindberg ; read by Erik Bauersfeld. (Part 3 of 3)

An autobiographical novel covering the period of the author's life between 1894 and 1896. Reading by Erik Bauersfeld, electronic music by Jan Paul Wendt. Continuity/technical information: one mil. tape - levels vary.

Inferno / by August Strindberg ; read by Erik Bauersfeld. (Part 2 of 3)

An autobiographical novel covering the period of the author's life between 1894 and 1896. Reading by Erik Bauersfeld, electronic music by Jan Paul Wendt. Continuity/technical information: one mil. tape - levels vary.

Inferno / by August Strindberg ; read by Erik Bauersfeld. (Part 1 of 3)

An autobiographical novel covering the period of the author's life between 1894 and 1896. Reading by Erik Bauersfeld, electronic music by Jan Paul Wendt. Continuity/technical information: one mil. tape.

Fear of Involvement: The Legacy of the Fifties

One of the panel discussions of the Second Annual Conference onf Concerned Asian Scholars held in San Francisco in April of 1970. Participants on this program are : Lillian Hellman, playwright; John K. Fairbank, Harvard; John Melby, University of Guelph; Jim Peck, Harvard; and Orville Schell, University of California Berkeley.

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