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Greene, David - Interview

Item number (ISN):

378448

Series title:

Live to Air

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2002-06-07

Item number (ISN):

378448

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:

2002-06-07

Production company:

Jim McKenna (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Jim McKenna

Description:

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Unedited interview of actor, writer and director David Greene about his experiences working as a director in live television for CBC television. 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: how he started working in television; his arrival in Toronto when television was just starting in Canada; his going to New York to act in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; meeting Mavor Moore; Moore encouraging him to go to the CBC; his experience as a Shakespearean actor with no experience as a director at that time; working with set designer Nicolai Soliviov; his learning how to be a director; directing Lorne Greene in OTHELLO; the responsibility of CBC directors to produce, direct, choose music, cast and do other tasks that producers did not do in U.S. television; the need to improvise; working in the small CBC studios; developing innovative techniques with the cameramen; scripts in Canada; Arthur Hailey and his script for FLIGHT INTO DANGER; working with set designers; having to plan the movement of the three cameras while taking into account the placement of the cables; the positioning of the microphone booms; the pandemonium in the control room during a live production and his pretending to be calm so as to give the appearance of knowing what he was doing; the need for precision in live television; more about producing FLIGHT INTO DANGER; the acclaim for FLIGHT INTO DANGER when it was shown in Canada and Britain; his background as an art student and newspaper reporter; producing MACBETH; the calibre of Canadian actors, many of whom had come from radio; the use of mirrors in his production of THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY, starring Lloyd Bochner; working with Rudi Dorn; the creative freedom of the early days of television; his doing a production every three weeks; working with actors; his later work in U.S. television; the adventure of working in early television; bringing a recording of FLIGHT INTO DANGER to New York to try to get a job in television there; his later work in the U.S.; the sense of family among the people who worked at CBC in the early days; and his admiration for Tyrone Guthrie. <54mn 14s>

Language:

English

Original number:

612-5305-02001

Notes:

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1. This is a Betacam SX dub of originals shot on Betacam SP tapes 7 and 8.~2. The Canadian Broadcast Museum holds the Betacam SP originals.~3. Production date of the Betacam originals (date interview conducted) is 2002-06-07.~4. Betacam SX tape dubbed at CBC on 2002-06-11.~5. 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.~6. Videotape and transcript available for consultation on LAC premises.~7. David Greene died on 7 April 2003.

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Vault ISN:

435745

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2007-01-0049

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

54:14

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

435961

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2007-02-0012

Number of items:

1

Duration:

101:14

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

794878

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378448.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0049

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

794879

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378448.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0049

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

981206

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2007-02-0023

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V7 2007-01-0049
V7 2007-01-0050

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2007-02-0012

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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