Oral history interview with Otto Preminger, 1958

Biographical Note

Film producer and director; interviewee b.1906, d.1986

Scope and Contents

Early theatre career, Vienna; Hollywood from 1935; reflections on evolution of motion picture craft and industry, censorship, television, technology, location shooting; recollections of Max Reinhardt, Charles Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Cinematography.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Preminger, Otto--Interviews.
• Television.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984