- Title: ALE-19
- Summary: RAY BRADBURY INTERVIEW: INTERVIEWS FILMED RELATED TO FILM MAKER GEORGE PAL
- Description:01:00:01 - MS OF RAY BRADBURY SEATED, INTERVIEW, LISTENS AND AND COMPARES THE LITERARY HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION WITH ITS FILM HISTORY, MENTIONS HUXLEY'S "A BRAVE NEW WORLD", GEORGE PAL TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE DURING THE WWII WHICH WORKED IT'S WAY TO LITERATURE AND FILM 01:02:40 - RAY BRADBURY IS ASKED ABOUT "METROPOLIS" AND "FLASH GORDON", TALKS ABOUT "MELIUS" AND FRITZ LANGE'S "METROPOLIS" AND GEORGE PAL, TIMELINE OF SCIENCE FICTION IN FILM. "FROM CONSTRUCTION CAME CONSTRUCTION AND CREATIVITY" 01:04:08 - RAY BRADBURY TALKS ABOUT "DESTINATION MOON", FOUND SCREENPLAY LACKING, LOVED CHESLEY BONESTELL'S PAINTINGS FOR THE FILM, RAY BRADBURY LISTENS AND COMMENTS ON THE ACCURACY OF THE FILM, THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, FORESHADOWING THE ACTUAL LANDING ON THE MOON 01:06:56 - RAY BRADBURY LISTENS AND COMMENTS ON THE IMAGERY AND WORDS BETWEEN THE GEORGE PAL MOVIE "DESTINATION MOON" AND THE ACTUAL MOON WALK BY NEIL ARMSTRONG 01:08:00 - INTERVIEW CONTINUES, RAY BRADBURY LISTENS AND COMPARES GEORGE PAL TO PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTERS, CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT THE REACTION TO "DESTINATION MOON", GRATEFUL FOR IT BEING A COLOR FILM, REPEATS THE COMMENT 01:11:23 - INTERVIEW CONTINUES: RAY BRADBURY TALKS ABOUT SEEING "WAR OF THE WORLDS" BEING SCARED, THE LOOK OF THE MARTIANS. COMMENTS ON THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF PAL'S FILM, MENTIONS CHESLEY BONESTELL'S TALENT 01:16:00 - RAY BRADBURY INTERVIEW CONTINUES: COMMENTS ON THE OVERALL PHILOSOPHY OF GEORGE PAL AS BEING ONE OF SOLVING PROBLEMS AND SURVIVING, RAY BRADBURY LAUGHS AND REPHRASES 01:18:57 - RAY BRADBURY LISTENS AND TALKS ABOUT "THE TIME MACHINE", CALLS IT VERY HUMAN AND MOVING. HE LISTENS TO DIRECTION AND TRIES TO PARAPHRASES, MAKES JOKES AND LAUGHS OUT LOUD, HAS TO DO IT AGAIN 01:22:46 - INTERVIEW CONTINUES, RAY BRADBURY LISTENS AND TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL'S FANTASY FILMS AND RELATES HIM TO WALT DISNEY, TALKS ABOUT "TOM THUMB" AND "WONDERFUL WORLD OF GRIMM BROTHERS". LISTENS AND MAKES FINAL STATEMENT ABOUT GEORGE PAL MAKING FILMS THAT MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE FOREVER. 01:26:40 - BLANK 01:26:42 - MODEL OF THE TIME MACHINE WITH SPINNING DISK, CU OF HAND REACHING IN TO STOP THE SPINNING 01:29:19 - END TAPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1990
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1990s
- File Name: ALE-19