Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Adolph Zukor, 1958.
Creator: | Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976 | Project: | Popular arts project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 37 pages Sound recording 1 reel Sound recording (Memoirs of the of the Movies excerpts) 1 reel | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteFilm producer, executive
Scope and ContentsEarly life, arrrival in America; the fur business, penny arcades, nickelodeons; Famous Players and making the first feature picture; merger of Lasky and Famous Players to become Paramount Pictures, 1916; competition; evolution of the motion picture industry, including the star system, block booking, the independent producer
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