Creative Person; 61; Henry Roth
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 61
- Episode
- Henry Roth
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-zg6g15vf8s
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Henry Roth is the author of one novel Call it Sleep, the story of a sensitive little Jewish boy who lives with his parents in New Yorks Jewish ghettoes at the turn of the century. Originally published thirty years ago, the book faded into obscurity, and Roth, disillusioned, after failure to complete another major work, took a job as a mental grinder, then moved to a farm in Maine with his family. In twenty years of hibernation he published only a few sketches. Call it Sleep was recently reissued in paperback and has been unanimously acclaimed as an American classic. In this profile of Henry Roth, made in Barcelona, Spain, where he was researching a new work, John Williams, another American novelist and friend of Roth, acts as a co-producer of the program and on-camera interviewer. He questions Roth on why he wrote Call it Sleep, his writers point of view, his own early background in New York at the turn of the century, his influences, his new work, a play about the Jews of the 16th-century Spain, and above all, why the creative impulse to write has been so intermittent in his life. The Creative Person: Henry Roth 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
- 1967-08-06
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Literature
- Biography
- Rights
- Published Work: This work was offered for sale and/or rent in 1972.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Roth, Henry
Host: Williams, John
Producer: Sameth, Jack
Producer: Williams, John
Producer: Tozer, Eliot
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2000520-1 (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; 61; Henry Roth,” 1967-08-06, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 8, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-zg6g15vf8s.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 61; Henry Roth.” 1967-08-06. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 8, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-zg6g15vf8s>.
- APA: Creative Person; 61; Henry Roth. 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-zg6g15vf8s