Oral history interview with Albert Sidney Howson, 1958

Biographical Note

Scenario editor, director of censorship

Scope and Contents

Playing for Vitagraph; career as scenario editor and director of censorship, 1925-58; detailed account of Warner Brothers first experiences with sound pictures; local censorship, Catholic Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Production Code; the public and the critics. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Film criticism.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Howson, Albert Sidney, 1881-1960--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.
• Sound motion pictures.