1 streaming audio file (approximately 25 minutes): digital
Summary
Streaming audio file (approximately 25 minutes). Part 1. Daniel Mack introduces his guest, Robert Helpmann; Robert Helpmann speaks about his background in both dance and theater including his performances at the Old Vic Theatre; his belief in the importance of dramatic training for dancers; the role of Hamlet; creating emotional contact with the audience when acting in a drama as compared with dancing in a ballet; his belief that the purpose of the theater is entertainment. Part 2. Panchita Pierce introduces her guest Robert Helpmann, and the film Don Quixote adapted by Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev from the ballet; Helpmann speaks with Pierce about the making of the film, at an airplane hangar in Australia; Lucette Aldous; the purpose of ballet as entertainment.
Two interviews with Robert Helpmann. Part 1: Interview by Daniel Mack, broadcast in October 1973 by radio station WRVR, New York (approximately 15 minutes.). Part 2: Interview by Panchita Pierce broadcast on October 28, 1973 by television station WNBC, New York on its series Sunday (approximately 10 minutes.). This section includes excerpts from the soundtrack of the film of the ballet Don Quixote co-directed by Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev.
The sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by "tape hiss," which is more pronounced in part 2, but the speakers' voices are clear and easily intelligible.
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Author
Helpmann, Robert, Sir, 1909-1986, interviewee.
Title
Interviews with Robert Helpmann, 1973.
Imprint
1973.
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
audio
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded for radio station WRVR, New York and television station WNBC, New York October 1973 New York (N.Y.)
Restricted access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 25 minutes); polyester, half-track, 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto7301_v01f01_sc.
Local note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-301
Former call number: *MGZT 7-301
Local note
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-301; 7 1/2 in. per sec.;7 in. reel; polyester. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master:*MGZTD 10-301; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.