An exceptional archive (updated)

With my thanks to Bob Fraser for pointing this out in an email I received today, you’ll find an amazing archive of in-depth video interviews (many of them around 3 hours!) conducted and archived by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the people who hand out the Emmy Awards) with so many interesting and inspiring actors, writers, producers and so forth. How many? 1,351 as I type this noted tonight, although that is actually the number of 30 minute segments, not the number of people interviewed. Here are just a few of the names, as Bob noted in his email…

Norman Lear, Andy Griffith, David Wolper, Carl Reiner, Bob Newhart, Steven Bochco, Phyllis Diller, Grant Tinker, Jay Sandrich, John Frankenheimer, Dick Wolf, Alan Alda, Quincy Jones, Kim Hunter, James Burrows, Barbara Eden, Gene Reynolds, Angela Lansbury, James Garner, Diahann Carroll, Phil Donahue, Don Knotts, Dennis Weaver, Joan Ganz Cooney, Ricardo Montalban, George Takai, Bob Mackie, Stephen J. Cannell, Larry Hagman, William Shatner, Betty White, Bob Carroll & Madelyn Davis, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jane Wyatt, Dick Clark, Grant Tinker, Ossie Davis, and a host of other luminaries of the television industry.

I’ve used Google’s search functions to sort the archive for you to include only the interviews, and in alphabetical order, just click here.

Details and background about these archives can be found at the Academy’s web site.

UPDATE! Thanks to Karen’s comment below, you’ll find a lots of information and plenty of direct links to the archived videos at this wonderful blog. There are many productive hours of reading, listening and watching available.