Reminiscences of Robert Drew, 1980.

Biographical Note

Filmmaker

Scope and Contents

Childhood and family; pilot in World War II; writer for LIFE magazine; Nieman Fellowship at Harvard; filmmaking influences; "direct cinema" vs. "cinema verite"; early films for TIME/LIFE including "Primary"; technical advances in mobile candid sync sound filmmaking; Drew Associates: production of films for ABC, TIME, the Bell Telephone Hour, particularly "Yankii, No" "Eddie", and films about John F. Kennedy, commercials, independent and industrial films; views on past and present documentary work Mrs. Drew particpated in the first two interview sessions

Subjects

• Air pilots--Interviews.
• Documentary films.
• Documentary television programs.
• Drew, Anne.
• Drew, Anne.
• Drew, Robert, 1924-2014--Interviews.
• Hogenson, Barbara, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Industrial films.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Television broadcasting of films.