Talking Film
Season 1, Episode 4: Acting in the Cinema
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Henry Fonda, Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, Leslie Nielsen, Albert Salmi, Sidney Pollack, Roger Corman, and John Milius discuss acting methods for the stage and screen, the actor's relationship to the director, and reminisce about some of the films they have worked on.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Producer (1)
Episode 2
The Director
Episode 3
The Screenwriter
Episode 4
Acting in the Cinema
Episode 5
Cinematography
Episode 6
Designing Movies
Episode 7
The Making of a Motion Picture (1)
Episode 8
Sex and Violence in the Cinema
Episode 9
How Movies Are Sold
Episode 10
A Portrait of John Ford (1)
Episode 11
Zanuck
Episode 12
The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr.
Episode 13
The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1)
Episode 14
The Western
Episode 15
Hooray for Hollywood
Episode 16
A Portrait of George Stevens (1)
Episode 17
The Critic
Episode 18
More Special Effects
Episode 19
The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema
Episode 20
The Animators
Episode 21
The Cinema of John Huston
Episode 22
The Cinema of Frank Capra (1)
Episode 23
More Film Criticism
Episode 24
Powell and Pressburger
Episode 25
Thirty Years of British Cinema
Episode 26
David Lean and Sir Carol Reed
Episode 27
Women in the Cinema
Episode 28
The Serial
Episode 29
The Cinema of Henry Hathaway
Episode 30
The Business of Directing
Episode 31
The Making of a Motion Picture (2)
Episode 32
The Making of a Motion Picture (3)
Episode 33
A Conversation with Pauline Kael
Episode 34
Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema
Episode 35
The Cinema of Elia Kazan
Episode 36
Anatomy of Suspense
Episode 37
The Making of a Motion Picture (4)
Episode 38
The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox
Episode 39
A Conversation with Otto Preminger
Episode 40
A Portrait of George Stevens (2)
Episode 41
A Portrait of John Ford (2)
Episode 42
A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Episode 43
The Producer (3)
Episode 44
Two Film Critics
Episode 45
An Interview with Samuel Fuller
Episode 46
Women in the Cinema: The Writer
Episode 47
Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger
Episode 48
The Cinema of King Vidor
Episode 49
The Making of a Musical
Episode 50
The Western Revisited
Episode 51
Music in the Cinema
Episode 52
The Screenwriter (2)
Episode 53
Cinematography (2)
Episode 54
Special Effects
Episode 55
The Cinema of Henry King
Episode 56
The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2)
Episode 57
Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark
Episode 58
The Cinema of Frank Capra (2)
Episode 59
The Classic Western
Episode 60
An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon
Episode 61
Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
Episode 62
The Marx Brothers and Their Writers
Episode 63
The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian
Episode 64
All Singing, All Dancing
Episode 65
The Music Men
Episode 66
The Screenwriter (3)
Episode 67
Lotusland
Episode 68
Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock
Episode 69
The Producer (2)
Episode 70
Stars on Stars
Episode 71
Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen
Episode 72
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Episode 73
Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
Episode 74
An Interview with Greer Garson
Episode 75
The Preston Sturges Story (1)
Episode 76
The Preston Sturges Story (2)
Episode 77
Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer
Episode 78
A Portrait of Billy Wilder
Episode 79
Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson
Episode 80
Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky