Google to carry archive interviews
Interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, James Garner and writer-producers Norman Lear and Steven Bochco -- along with 70 other luminaries from the television industry -- will be available for free online viewing beginning today under a new collaboration between Google Video and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.
Hoping to make its Archive of American Television more accessible to scholars, students and the general public, the academy foundation has authorized Google to make 284 of its more than 450 interviews available at www.video.google.com. The first 75 were to be online today, with the others added later -- and potentially the entire archive eventually.
The foundation has been conducting interviews with key TV players for years to document the history of the medium. Others released to Google include CNN founder Ted Turner, director John Frankenheimer and performers William Shatner, Andy Griffith, Diahann Carroll and Sid Caesar.
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