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[The Farnsworth invention on the Today show]

Title
  1. [The Farnsworth invention on the Today show] [videorecording] / Produced for the Today show, NBC-TV, New York, N.Y.
Published by
  1. New York, 2007.

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Additional authors
  1. Gangel, Jamie
  2. Sorkin, Aaron
  3. Azaria, Hank, 1964-
  4. NBC Television Network
  5. Boneau/Bryan-Brown, donor
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (6 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. News segment devoted to the Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin's play The Farnsworth invention. The play is a drama based loosely on fact concerning the invention of television, and the rivalry of two primary claimants to the development of the technology, inventor Philo Farnsworth and communications mogul David Sarnoff. Segment includes brief excerpts from the play, and excerpts from interviews with playwright Aaron Sorkin and actor Hank Azaria, who played Sarnoff. The play opened at the Music Box Theatre on Dec. 3, 2007, and closed on March 2, 2008.
Uniform title
  1. Today show (Television program)
Subject
  1. Television
  2. Theater > New York (State) > New York
  3. Sorkin, Aaron > Farnsworth invention
  4. Inventors > United States > Drama
  5. Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971 > Drama
  6. Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971 > Drama
  7. Sorkin, Aaron > Interviews
  8. Interviews
  9. Azaria, Hank, 1964- > Interviews
  10. Television > History > Drama
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
  2. Television.
Call number
  1. NCOX 2366
Note
  1. No credits on tape. Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted to qualified researchers.
Performer (note)
  1. Featuring Aaron Sorkin and Hank Azaria. Interviewer: Jamie Gangel.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped at the Music Box Theatre and elsewhere in New York, N.Y. Originally broadcast on NBC-TV on Nov. 4, 2007.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Title
  1. [The Farnsworth invention on the Today show] [videorecording] / Produced for the Today show, NBC-TV, New York, N.Y.
Imprint
  1. New York, 2007.
Access
  1. Restricted to qualified researchers.
Cast
  1. Featuring Aaron Sorkin and Hank Azaria. Interviewer: Jamie Gangel.
Event
  1. Videotaped at the Music Box Theatre and elsewhere in New York, N.Y. Originally broadcast on NBC-TV on Nov. 4, 2007.
Local note
  1. Gift of Boneau/Bryan-Brown.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
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  1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material
Added author
  1. Gangel, Jamie, interviewer.
  2. Sorkin, Aaron, interviewee.
  3. Azaria, Hank, 1964- interviewee.
  4. NBC Television Network.
  5. Boneau/Bryan-Brown, donor.
Added title
  1. Today show (Television program)
Research call number
  1. NCOX 2366
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