| Title: |
Reminiscences of Jay Leyda
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A119
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family and artistic background, Dayton, Ohio; assistant to Ralph Steimer, New York, N.Y., 1930; photographs in ARTS WEEKLY, 1930-31; Moscow correspondent, THEATRE ARTS MONTHLY, 1934-36; student and apprentice director under Sergei Eisenstein, editor for Eisenstein's essays and studies; assistant curator, department of film, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1936-40: film-acquiring trips abroad, development of Soviet film collection; cameraman, Workers Film and Photo League; film editor, Frontier Films, 1937: NATIVE LAND, MISSION TO MOSCOW, others; translator, THE FILM SENSE, 1941; editor, THE MOUSSORGSKY READER, 1947, books on Herman Melville, THE YEARS AND HOURS OF EMILY DICKINSON, 1960; catalogued Chinese Film Archive, Peking, 1959_64; work at Staatliches Filmarchiv in Berlin, Germany, 1964-69; professor of Cinema Studies, New York University, from 1974; history of film; reminiscences of many filmmakers and others in the industry.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 289 leaves, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Written permission required from interviewee's estate. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1980 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Leyda, Jay, 1910-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1910
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| Speaker occupation: |
Author; Filmmaker
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document date: |
1980
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| Interviewer: |
Hogenson, Barbara
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| Organizations discussed: |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York University, New York, NY
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| Locations discussed: |
New York; New York, NY; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Authors; Documentary films; Educators; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures--China; Motion pictures--Germany; Motion pictures--Soviet Union; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York; New York University, New York, NY; New York, NY; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948; Leyda, Jay, 1910-
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019009-14452
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