Magazine Interviews: 1912 - 1945 Film Clips
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An Interview with Leon Trotsky (Script, 1938)
This magazine interview with Leon Trotsky (né Lev Davidovich Bronstein: 1879 – 1940) was conducted by Gladys Lloyd Robinson: Beverly Hills doyenne, matron of the arts and wife of actor Edgar G. Robinson - in the parlance of the dearly departed Soviet Union, she was what would have been labeled a "useful idiot". Easily impressed by the goings-on at the "worker's paradise", she avoided such uncomfortable topics as the Soviet famine, the class privileges extended to Party Members or his own war on private property, but regardless of that, and much to her credit, she was able to get the most famous of Soviet refugees to speak about the 1938 world stage while conducting this interview.Click here to read about the Soviet famine. Click Here to Read an Article About KKK Activity in New York City
| An Interview With Cartoonist Art Young (Direction, 1938)
Artist Gilbert Wilson conducted this interview with American socialist cartoonist Art Young (1866 – 1943) which appeared in "Direction Magazine" during the summer of 1938. In the fullness of time, Art Young has come to be recognized as something of a demi-god in the American poison pen pantheon of graphic satirists and no study of Twentieth Century political cartoons is complete without him:
"Art Young has never adopted the policy of tearing into his foe (which is capitalism) with tooth and claw. It simply isn't his way. He just isn't capable of hating anyone or anything badly enough to get that angry.""Isn't it rather the duty of a good radical, as Lenin said, 'Patiently to explain'?"
| The Wunderkind: Orson Welles (Direction, 1941)
This magazine profile is from a short-lived but much admired American magazine containing many sweet words regarding the unstoppable Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) and his appearance in the Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) play, "Panic" (directed by John Houseman, 1902 — 1988). 1941 was another great year for the "boy genius" who seemed to effortlessly triumph with all his theatrical and film ventures. At the time this appeared in print, Welles was filming "The Magnificent Ambersons", having recently pocketed an Oscar for his collaborative writing efforts in "Citizen Cane". Highly accomplished and multi-married, no study of American entertainment is complete without mention of his name. The anonymous scribe who penned the attached article remarked:"No pretentiously shy Saroyan courtship of an audience about Welles! He really loves his relation to the public. He doesn't flirt with it."
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| Profile of Albert Einstein (Literary Digest, 1935)
A year and a half after departing Germany, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) vogued it up for the cameras at a meeting for the scientific community in Pennsylvania where he answered three very basic questions concerning his research.
"A small, sensitive, and slightly naive refugee from Germany stole the show at the winter meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, which closed at Pittsburgh last week. Not only the general public and newspapermen, but even the staid scientists forgot their dignity in a scramble to see and hear the little man, Albert Einstein, whose ideas have worked the greatest revolution in modern scientific thought." *Newsreel Footage of Einstein's Arrival in America*
| Kemal Ataturk: Thug (Ken Magazine, 1938)
A 1930s magazine article that cataloged the bloody footsteps of Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 1938):
"He has revolutionized a backward nation, destroying the superstitions of five centuries, and singlehanded has accomplished more than any one man of our time. On the battlefield he fought other countries to a standstill, conquering one that had an overwhelming advantage in men and guns. But if Kemal Ataturk were not one of the greatest men of this age he would be known as one of the biggest bums in the world."Click here to read an article about the "Young Turk Movement".
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