ABOUT
The Motion Archive holds over 400 hours of interviews with many eminent figures from the film industry.
Incorporating the work of film historian John W. Henderson and Henderson Film Industries The Motion Archive is a collection of in-depth, personal, technical and career spanning interviews with directors, cinematographers, editors, composers and more, who have created many of cinema's most iconic movies.
The Motion Archive's catalogue includes never released, unseen interviews with:
Directors:
Robert Wise /'West Side Story', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'/
Budd Boetticher /'Seven Men From Now', 'Ride Lonesome'/
Irvin Kershner /'Empire Strikes Back', 'Never Say Never Again'/
Mark Rydell /'On Golden Pond', 'The Long Goodbye'/
& many more.
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Cinematographers:
Owen Roizman / 'The French Connection', 'The Exorcist'/
Jack Cardiff /'Black Narcissus', 'Sons And Lovers'/
William A Fraker /'Bullitt', 'WarGames', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'/
Haskell Wexler /'In The Heat Of The Night', 'The Thomas Crown Affair'/
& many more.
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Screenwriters:
Edward Anhalt /'Becket', 'The Boston Strangler'/
John Briley /'Gandhi', 'Cry Freedom'/
Abraham Polonsky /'Body And Soul', 'Odds Against Tomorrow'/
& many more.
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Actors:
Carrie Fisher /'Empire Strikes Back'/
Mark Hamill /'Empire Strikes Back'/
Rod Steiger /'Doctor Zhivago'/
Sir Peter Ustinov /'Spartacus'/
Virginia Mayo /'White Heat'/
Charlton Heston /'Soylent Green'/
Dabney Coleman /'On Golden Pond'/
Angie Dickinson /'Oceans Eleven'/
& Many more.
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Composers:
Elmer Bernstein /'The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape'/
Jerry Goldsmith /'Planet of the Apes', 'The Sand Pebbles'/
John Williams /'On Golden Pond', 'Superman', 'Jaws'/
& many more.
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Editors:
Terry Rawlings /'Alien', 'Blade Runner', 'Chariots Of Fire'/
John Bloom /'Shaft', 'Gandhi'/
Anne V. Coates /'The Elephant Man', 'Lawrence of Arabia'/
& many more.
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Producers:
Howard Koch /'The Manchurian Candidate','Airplane'/
Walter Seltzer /'Shake Hands With The Devil', 'Soylent Green'/
Richard Zanuck /'The Sting', 'Jaws'/
& many more.
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