Talking Film
TV
Type
1978
Year
1 Season
Seasons
★ 9.0
Rating
Documentary
Genre
Movie expert Elwy Yost interviews industry people on both sides of the camera, encouraging them to talk about themselves, the state of their art, and its history. The series features many famous film personalities who, along with producers, directors, designers, screenwriters, and critics, offer candid insights into the making of motion pictures.
Episodes
1. The Producer (1)
2. The Director
3. The Screenwriter
4. Acting in the Cinema
5. Cinematography
6. Designing Movies
7. The Making of a Motion Picture (1)
8. Sex and Violence in the Cinema
9. How Movies Are Sold
10. A Portrait of John Ford (1)
11. Zanuck
12. The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr.
13. The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1)
14. The Western
15. Hooray for Hollywood
16. A Portrait of George Stevens (1)
17. The Critic
18. More Special Effects
19. The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema
20. The Animators
21. The Cinema of John Huston
22. The Cinema of Frank Capra (1)
23. More Film Criticism
24. Powell and Pressburger
25. Thirty Years of British Cinema
26. David Lean and Sir Carol Reed
27. Women in the Cinema
28. The Serial
29. The Cinema of Henry Hathaway
30. The Business of Directing
31. The Making of a Motion Picture (2)
32. The Making of a Motion Picture (3)
33. A Conversation with Pauline Kael
34. Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema
35. The Cinema of Elia Kazan
36. Anatomy of Suspense
37. The Making of a Motion Picture (4)
38. The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox
39. A Conversation with Otto Preminger
40. A Portrait of George Stevens (2)
41. A Portrait of John Ford (2)
42. A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz
43. The Producer (3)
44. Two Film Critics
45. An Interview with Samuel Fuller
46. Women in the Cinema: The Writer
47. Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger
48. The Cinema of King Vidor
49. The Making of a Musical
50. The Western Revisited
51. Music in the Cinema
52. The Screenwriter (2)
53. Cinematography (2)
54. Special Effects
55. The Cinema of Henry King
56. The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2)
57. Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark
58. The Cinema of Frank Capra (2)
59. The Classic Western
60. An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon
61. Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
62. The Marx Brothers and Their Writers
63. The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian
64. All Singing, All Dancing
65. The Music Men
66. The Screenwriter (3)
67. Lotusland
68. Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock
69. The Producer (2)
70. Stars on Stars
71. Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen
72. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
73. Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
74. An Interview with Greer Garson
75. The Preston Sturges Story (1)
76. The Preston Sturges Story (2)
77. Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer
78. A Portrait of Billy Wilder
79. Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson
80. Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky
Cast
Elwy Yost
Self - Host