Oral history interview with Albert Delacorte, 1958

Biographical Note

Fan magazine editor

Scope and Contents

Editorial career at Dell Publishing from 1935; editor of MODERN SCREEN 1941-58: editorial policies, circulation, readership, measuring reader preferences, ethics, truth in stories, relationship to film studios, competition with PHOTOPLAY and CONFIDENTIAL. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Delacorte, Albert--Interviews.
• Dell Publishing Company.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Periodicals.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.