Assorted Famous People and Celebrities Film Clips
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An Interview with Leon Trotsky (Script, 1938)
This interview of 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.
| A Profile of Cartoonist Art Young (Direction, 1938)
Artist Gilbert Wilson wrote this 1938 profile of American socialist cartoonist Art Young (1866 – 1943). 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'?"
| Lincoln Kirstein and American Ballet (Delineator, 1935)
One of the first articles to be written about "balletomanes" Lincoln Kirstein (1907 - 1996) and his efforts with George Balanchine (1904 – 1983) and philanthropist Edward M.M. Warburg (1910 - 1992) to form the first American ballet company (the corps was later called the New York City Ballet).
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