Afternoon Viewing: Lost Rod Serling Interview
From the YouTube description:
In 1970 University of Kansas professor James Gunn interviewed a series of science fiction authors for his Centron film series “Science Fiction in Literature”. This footage from an unreleased film in that series featuring an interview with Rod Serling, which wasn’t finished due to problems with obtaining rights to show footage from Serling’s work in television. This reconstruction is based on the original workprint footage that was saved on two separate analog sources since the audio track was separate. Re-syncing the footage was a long involved process as the audio track didn’t match the film and there was substantial sync drift. While not perfect, there’s a lot of interesting information on writing for television in the dialogue with Serling as well as a prophetic statement about his health at the beginning.
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AuthorScoop
March 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Eeep! Rod Serling was my first love. Him or Charleton Heston, I just can’t quite remember if I saw ‘The Ten Commandments’ before or after I started getting up in the middle of the night to watch Twilight Zone reruns with my night-owl mother.
Either way, I was about three years old, but I knew what love was.