Interviews

Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller

The University Television Center produced a variety of television programs that were broadcast on stations across the country to fulfill their FCC requirement for a minimal amount of education programming. The Center took advantage of U-M faculty experts and prominent visitors to campus to record interviews on topics ranging from the arts, to science, medicine and public affairs. A sample of the TV Centers interview programs are provided below.



Michigan Media Television Programs and Films


[851831-B-65] Open Mind, The: Talk With Margaret Mead; [view video]
  • Original: 2-inch video, color/w, sound, 00:29:28, 1958-9
  • Noted anthropologist and author comments on life in the United States today and tells how she came to be an anthropologist.

[851831-B-69] Eleanor Roosevelt: A Portrait  [view video]
  • Original: kine pos, b/w, optical, 00:29:40, 1958-9
  • Eleanor Roosevelt discusses present world problems.

[851831-B-101] Interview with Ayn Rand, An  [view video]
  • Original: kine pos, b/w, optical, 00:30:08, 1961
  • Ayn Rand, noted novelist, philosopher, and controversial figure on the modern intellectual scene, offers her views on the current intellectual crisis in American society.

[851831-B-227] Arthur Miller: Today's Theatre  [view video]
  • Original: 2-inch video, color, sound, 30:00, 1973
  • Miller discusses his new play Up From Paradise and current problems plaguing Broadway.