The Mike Wallace Interview
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The Mike Wallace Interview is a series of 30-minute television interviews conducted by host Mike Wallace in 1957-60. Before The Mike Wallace Interview was televised nationally on prime-time in 1957, the host of the show had risen to prominence a year earlier with Night-Beat, a television interview program that aired in New York City.
[edit] The Ransom Center Collection
In the early 1960s, Mike Wallace donated kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence, to the Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
On April 4, 2008, the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin hosted online 65 of the interviews from 1957-58. 60 of the 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor, with the remaining five on audio tape.
The 16mm films were transferred to video and, along with the audio tapes, were digitized. The interviews were then transcribed and were both embedded in the video files in the form of subtitles. Also included on the website are text files of the transcripts of each program. Copyrights for all of the interviews are held by Mike Wallace.
The interviews hosted by The Ransom Center Collection include the following:
Steve Allen, comedian, musician, and television personality
Harry Ashmore, editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock and Pulitzer Prize winner
Diana Barrymore, actor, daughter of actor John Barrymore
Margaret Sanger, leader of the birth control movement in America
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
Kirk Douglas, American actor
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pearl Buck, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Oscar Hammerstein, Broadway lyricist
Peter Ustinov, actor, playwright, director, and novelist
Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter
Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice
Aldous Huxley, author and social critic
Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social critic
Adlai Stevenson, former US presidential candidate
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State under Richard M. Nixon
Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, former dean of Yale Law School, former president and chancellor of The University of Chicago
Mortimer Adler, American philosopher and author
