Oral history interview with Gilbert M. Anderson, 1958

Biographical Note

Movie actor; also known as Broncho Billy

Scope and Contents

Making of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY; association with Edison Company, Vitagraph, Bill Selig, George K. Spoor, Charlie Chaplin; the Broncho Billy pictures; reflections on the western movie. Audio is comprised of the narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Anderson, Gilbert M., 1880-1971--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Western films.