Creative Person; 69; Tyrone Guthrie
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 69
- Episode
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-m901z42v1q
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Sir Tyrone Guthrie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1961 in recognition of a theatrical career which even then had embraced thirty-seven years and four continents. The success of the Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theater in Minneapolis (of which he was the founding director), as well as the many productions staged during the last two decades for the Broadway theater and the New York Metropolitan Opera, had made Guthries name as familiar to American audiences as it is to London playgoers. This film explores the scope of Tyrone Guthries life in the theater, his ideas and methods of working. NET visits Sir Tyrone at his home in Ireland, where he reminisces about his early days at the Old Vic with stars like Laurence Olivier, Jessica Tandy, and the late Charles Laughton. The cameras follow him to Broadway, where he is seen conducting a rehearsal of his recent revival of the Kaufman-Ferber comedy, Dinner at Eight and then on a tour of American colleges where he is seen in informal talk with a student group which is producing Chekhovs The Three Sisters. In interviews, actors June Havoc and Darren McGavin and Guthries long-time associate, set and costume designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch, tell of their work with the celebrated stage director, playwright and writer. Guthrie talks about the Minneapolis Repertory Theater and discusses his ideas about theater as the most vital way sophisticated, twentieth-century man can satisfying his primitive need for storytelling. Creative Person Tyrone Guthrie is a National Educational Television production. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-10-01
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Performing Arts
- Theater
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Director: Chopra, Joyce
Executive Producer: Howard, Brice
Guest: Guthrie, Tyrone
Producer: Chopra, Joyce
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2000441-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; 69; Tyrone Guthrie,” 1967-10-01, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 13, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-m901z42v1q.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 69; Tyrone Guthrie.” 1967-10-01. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 13, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-m901z42v1q>.
- APA: Creative Person; 69; Tyrone Guthrie. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-m901z42v1q