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Allen, Robert Greer - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304230

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-08-06

Item number (ISN):

304230

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1982-08-06

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Robert Greer Allen, radio and television producer with the CBC. Allen discusses: his early years; his writing at an early age; dress rehearsals for live television dramas; the role of the producer; camera switching; his work with Andrew Allan on one occasion when one camera was not functionning; difficulties in changing sets with live television; comparison of live and filmed drama; opportunity to see major dramas; producers' relationships among themselves; selling radio plays written by himself and his wife to Allan while in the army during the war; scripts sent in under the name Rita and Robert Greer; his production of SERVICEMEN'S FORUM after being seconded to the CBC; details about how the program was recorded on disc and played on the Dominion Network of the CBC; his travels for SERVICEMEN'S FORUM; Arthur Phelps' hiring of Allen for the International Service in Montreal; work in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth section of I.S.; opportunity to re-produce Andrew Allan's dramas for the I.S.; the propoganda role of the I.S.; his transfer to Vancouver in the CBC domestic service as a radio producer; his production of farm broadcasts, music programs, musical comedies and dramas; Andrew Allan's production skills; the opportunity to do more original radio work in Vancouver; the atmosphere of activity and creativity in Vancouver; Earle Birney's writing; his invitation to move to Toronto to work on television; practicing television production in 1952; preparation for 90 minute live television dramas; and the production of a half-hour serial every week. <56mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Toronto.

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Vault ISN:

339703

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03482

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1981-0052/201
1981-0052/202
1981-0052/203
FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Reproduction access:

to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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