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Barris, Alex - Interview

Item number (ISN):

378432

Series title:

Live to Air

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2002-05-08

Item number (ISN):

378432

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCKENNA, Jim

Accession:

2006-0176

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2002-05-08

Production company:

Jim McKenna (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Jim McKenna

Description:

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Unedited interview of newspaper columnist, author, and CBC television host Alex Barris about his experiences working in live television at the CBC. The interview is for a two-hour documentary entitled LIVE TO AIR, broadcast on CBC television on 16 September 2002. Among the subjects discussed are: interviewing Calvin Jackson, the star of the series JAZZ WITH JACKSON; how he started working in television; the start of television in Canada; writing and hosting a CBC TV show; interviewing Anthony Quayle; his late-night variety show THE BARRIS BEAT and how he got his inspiration from THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW; working with Norman Jewison, Sammy Sales, Larry Mann, Jack Duffy and Roy Roberts; his making a mistake on a live show in which he introduced singer Mary Jane Ferguson instead of throwing to commercial; a sketch in which Gloria Lambert, with her New England accent, said "fork and knife" instead of knife and fork; working with Len Casey and Phil Nimmons; a comedy sketch with Jack Duffy in which Duffy was getting ready to jump out a skyscraper window and a stage hand walked by, ruining the shot; the show BARRIS AND COMPANY; his enjoyment in singing and performing as well as interviewing; Frank Peppiatt; John Aylesworth; the excitement of doing live television; ad-libbing in live television; working with Juliette; CBC radio producer Sandy Stewart seeing Barris performing the song Ballad of Marilyn Bell, which Barris had written, at a Toronto Press Club event; how this prompted Stewart to recommend him for television; Stewart’s suggestion that Barris would be a good host for a late night CBC TV variety show; the enthusiasm and belief in the medium of television by the people who worked in the early days of television; and the fun he had doing the musical-variety series THE BARRIS BEAT. <41mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. This is a Betacam SX dub of originals shot on Betacam SP tapes 14 and 15 (there are colour bars at approximately 30 minutes into this dub).~2. The Canadian Broadcast Museum holds the Betacam SP originals.~3. Some replies are rephrased at the request of the interviewer in order to create complete replies since the interviewer’s questions are edited out for the documentary.~4. Videotape and transcript available for consultation on LAC premises.~5. Alex Barris died on 15 January 2004 at age 81.~6. Dub goes to black and colour bars at approximately 29 minutes.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

435693

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2007-01-0031

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

41:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

435952

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2007-01-0019

Number of items:

1

Duration:

84:54

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

793769

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378432.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0031

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

793770

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378432.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0031

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

981181

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2007-01-0056

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0030
V7 2007-01-0031

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2007-01-0019

Restrictions on consultation:

Open for consultation.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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