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Lauk, Len - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304443

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-07-31

Item number (ISN):

304443

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0055

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1981-07-31

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Len Lauk, CBC administrator. Lauk discusses: his early years in Vancouver; his days at the University of British Columbia; theatre at the University of British Columbia and his work with amateur theatre after leaving UBC; various jobs he held in Penticton and elsewhere; his being hired by the CBC as a production assistant; his work as a coordinating producer and studio director; his working with Andrew Allan, Gene Rollick and Darrell Duke; the environment of the old Vancouver production studios; HIDDEN PAGES and changes in children's television; his promotion to the position of producer in 1957; CARIBOU COUNTRY and the prevalence of locally produced programs; his move to news and public affairs; the "palace revolt" of Hugh Palmer; growing tensions between producers and management in the early 1960s leading up to the SEVEN DAYS controversy; the organization of the Vancouver producers association and his role in it; his response to and assessment of the Montreal producers' strike; his reaction to the SEVEN DAYS dispute; the impact of the producers assocation; the similarities and differences between Quebec producers and English-Canadian producers; his work in Vancouver as a producer; the shift from drama to anthologies on the CBC; the impact of American television on anthologies and their finances; and the development of the CBC news approach.~Lauk also comments on: his promotion to Director of Television in Halifax; television in the Maritimes and the changes he made to it; the prospects for producing network shows in the Atlantic; his move to Toronto to become Regional Director of Television; his responsibilities in Toronto; the problems faced in Toronto because of lack of consolidation; the various plans to achieve consolidation in Toronto and why they failed; the opening of Vancouver's new facilities; his return to Vancouver as Director of Television for Vancouver and Deputy Regional Director; his subsequent promotion to Regional Director; the impact of John Diefenbaker on the CBC; the pressures faced by CBC management; Alphonse Ouimet's presidency; Ouimet's handling of the SEVEN DAYS crisis; the impact of the split into an English Services Division and a French Services division; the balancing of regional and network interests; the reason why the government is afraid of CBC consolidation; and the response of the unions to "privatization" in the CBC. <1h 24mn 30s>

Language:

English

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1. Recorded in Vancouver.

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Vault ISN:

339672

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03223

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339673

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03224

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Open

Reproduction access:

with permission of Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project

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