The Mike Wallace Interview is a series of 30-minute television interviews conducted by host Mike Wallace. From April 28, 1957, to September 14, 1958, they were carried by the ABC American Broadcasting Company television network.[1] In 1959–1960, they were offered by the NTA Film Network.[citation needed]
Before The Mike Wallace Interview was televised nationally on prime-time in 1957, Wallace had risen to prominence a year earlier with Night-Beat, a television interview program that aired in New York City.[2]
Name
Initial plans called for the program to be called Profiles. Wallace and ABC had tentatively decided to use that name, but they reconsidered after hearing from The New Yorker magazine. The New York Times reported that a letter from the magazine cordially "pointed out it had long run personality pieces under th heading of 'profiles'".[3] Although the letter contained no threat if the name were to be used, Wallace and ABC decided to use another name.[3]
The Ransom Center Collection
In the early 1960s, 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 November 4, 2007, the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin hosted online 65 of the interviews from 1957 to 1958. Sixty of the 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, subsequently digitized. The interviews were then transcribed and were embedded in the video files in the form of subtitles. Also included on the website are text files of the transcripts of each program.
The interviews hosted by The Ransom Center Collection include:[4]
In December 1957, ABC Film Syndication acquired 26 episodes of the series to distribute in Canada and Great Britain. The company also planned to dub those episodes in French, German, and Spanish for distribution in other countries.[5]
↑ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1999). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (7thed.). New York: The Ballentine Publishing Group. p.664. ISBN0-345-42923-0.
↑ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4thed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p.551. ISBN0-14-02-4916-8.
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