Google Launches Archive of American Television Interviews

Google Inc. now offers free viewing of videotaped interviews with some of TV's biggest celebrities, as the result of a deal with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.

The Mountain View, Calif., search engine said the Foundation agreed to make its Archive of American Television interviews available.

"The Foundation's Archive of American Television is probably the most diverse, complete and fascinating resource of its kind. The stories are told through the eyes of the creative geniuses – in front of and behind the cameras – who shaped and continue to shape television into the most powerful medium in the world," Steve Mosko, Chairman of the Television Academy Foundation, commented.

As of Wednesday, 75 of the 284 films are available through Google Video http://video.google.com/ . To get a listing of all 75 films, a person needs to enter the query "academy of television" into the Google Video search box. The Foundation's collection covers the last 75 years in television.

"We are very excited to be working with Google Video to help us unlock these interviews and make them accessible to students, journalists, researchers and television fans around the world," said Terri Clark, Executive Director of the Television Academy Foundation.

This historic collection includes interviews with Alan Alda, Dick Wolf, Steven Bochco and many of television's greatest actors, writers, producers, directors and others.

The comprehensive list of actors, producers, show creators, writers, artists, journalists and directors includes:

• Performers : Alan Alda, Sid Caesar, Diahann Carroll, Ossie Davis, Phyllis Diller, Michael J. Fox, Andy Griffith, Robert Guillaume, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, William Shatner, Dick Van Dyke, Betty White, and James Garner
• Producer/Creators : Dick Wolf, Steven Bochco, Dick Clark, Sherwood Schwartz, Norman Lear, Grant Tinker, David Wolper, and Carl Reiner
• Directors, Executives, Artists : James Burrows, John Frankenheimer, Bob Mackie, Gene Reynolds and Ted Turner