Oral history interview with King Wallis Vidor, 1958

Biographical Note

Moving-picture director

Scope and Contents

Earliest experiences with motion pictures, experiments with makeshift equipment; Vitagraph; career as director at First National, Metro, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; description of making various films including "The Big Parade" and "Street Scene"; advent of sound; responsibility of the director; impressions of D.W. Griffith, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.
• Vidor, King, 1894-1982--Interviews.