Top Hat & Tales : Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker / First-Run Features (Firm).

Top Hat and Tales chronicles the early years of The New Yorker, from its fledgling beginnings under its legendary creator and editor Harold Ross, to its rise as an indispensable American institution. Interviews with celebrated writers and cartoonists such as John Updike, David Remnick, Roger Angell,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Infobase (Film distributor)
First-Run Features (Firm)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : First-Run Features (Firm), [2001]
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Ross, Harold Wallace, > 1892-1951.
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Internet videos.
Genre:
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (46 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • The New Yorker Debut Issue (1:58)
  • Gambling Addiction (1:52)
  • Saving The New Yorker (2:14)
  • Mission Statement & Competition (1:38)
  • Reflecting New York Lifestyle (2:32)
  • Writer Katharine Angell White (3:39)
  • Algonquin Round Table (2:11)
  • "A Box to Hide In" (2:03)
  • "The Talk of the Town" (1:37)
  • Obsession With Perfection (2:59)
  • Communal Style (0:58)
  • Early Newspaper Career (2:05)
  • Secret Marriage (2:08)
  • Disdain for Advertisers (2:04)
  • Paradoxical Personality (2:05)
  • Toll on Health & Marriage (0:59)
  • "The New Journalism" (2:11)
  • Underpaying Writers (2:34)
  • Torn Between Two Worlds (1:27)
  • Supporting WWII & Women Writers (3:20)
  • Becoming a World Magazine (1:38)
  • In Memoriam (1:42)
  • Credits: Top Hat & Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker (0:39)