Oral history interview with Carey Wilson, 1959

Biographical Note

Writer, producer

Scope and Contents

Childhood, early career as a salesman and writer; Hollywood in the 1920s: social system, studios, production schedules; distribution and block booking; censorship before and after Motion Picture Code; western films; recollections of making series pictures; relation of writing to film; effect of Screenwriters Guild; producing and directing. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Western films.
• Wilson, Carey, 1889-1962--Interviews.