Oral history interview with Paul N. Lazarus, Jr., 1959

Biographical Note

Film executive

Scope and Contents

Advertising and publicity for Warner Brothers, 1933-42, for United Artists 1943-50, and for Columbia Pictures 1950-59; demographics of movie goers; competition with television for audiences; changes in distribution and the international market; titles and the packaging of films; involvement of the stars in promotion of films; impressions of Kim Novak and others. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Lazarus, Paul N., 1913---Interviews.
• Motion picture audiences.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publicity.