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SUMMARY:Lela Swift: Television Director
DESCRIPTION:Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more 
 about upcoming screenings and events.\n\nFree admission. No advance 
 reservations. Ticketing is on a first come\, first served basis. Seats will 
 not be assigned.\n\nIntroduction by Archive Research and Study Center 
 Officer Maya Montañez Smukler.\n\nLela Swift began her career in 
 television during the early 1940s as an assistant to the chief television 
 engineer at CBS\, where she was at the forefront of an evolving broadcast 
 industry. By 1945\, she had moved into production as a writer and studio 
 assistant floor manager\, and in 1950\, she was promoted to director. 
 During a decades-long career\, Swift directed a variety of genres\, 
 including early 1950s television anthologies such as CBS’ prestigious 
 Studio One\, ABC’s Wide World of Mystery and NBC’s Purex Specials for 
 Women\, and won three Emmy Awards for directing the daytime series Ryan’s 
 Hope. Swift’s prolific creative output traces television’s history of 
 innovation\, imagination and changing audience taste.—Maya Montañez 
 Smukler\n\nScreening 1 of 2\n\nThe Web: “Time For Hate”\n\nYear: 
 1953\nCountry: U.S.\nLanguage: English\nRuntime: 30 min.\nDigital. 
 B&W.\n\nWorld Premiere of New Preservation\n\nWith original 
 commercials\n\nAs a pioneering staff director at CBS Television in New 
 York\, Lela Swift helmed episodes of the live anthology mystery The Web on 
 alternating weeks\, trading duties with series producer Herbert Hirschman. 
 In this Swift-directed installment\, a mysterious man (John Baragrey) 
 seemingly returns from the dead to upend the lives of a domineering mother 
 (Jessie Royce Landis) and her tormented daughter (Marian Russell). 
 Punctuated by close-ups and a gently foreboding atmosphere\, this early 
 effort by Swift anticipates her later innovative work directing hundreds of 
 episodes of the cult-classic gothic soap opera Dark Shadows 
 (1966–71).—Mark Quigley\n\nDCP. CBS. Production: A Mark Goodson-Bill 
 Todman Production in association with the CBS Television Network. Producer: 
 Herbert Hirschman. Director: Lela Swift. Writer: Art Wallace. With: Jessie 
 Royce Landis\, John Baragrey\, Marian Russell.\n\nPreservation funding 
 provided by the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. 
 Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 16mm 
 kinescope. Laboratory services by Endpoint Audio Labs. \n\nScreening 2 of 
 2\n\nJustice: “House of Hatred”\n\nYear: 1955\nCountry: U.S.\nRuntime: 
 30 min.\nDigital. B&W.\n\nWorld Premiere of New Preservation\n\nProduced 
 live\, this Dragnet-style series explored social justice cases adapted from 
 the files of the Legal Aid Society of New York City. Lela Swift directs 
 this tense installment starring Gary Merrill (All About Eve\, 1950) as an 
 earnest lawyer attempting to help an innocent family being unfairly 
 persecuted following the murder conviction of their son. At a time when the 
 Hollywood Blacklist dictated many hiring practices in the film and 
 television industry\, the episode\, written by Anne Howard Bailey (The 
 Adams Chronicles\, 1976)\, boldly examines the immorality of “guilt by 
 association” and prejudice.—Mark Quigley\n\nDCP. NBC. Production: 
 Talent Associates-John Rust Production. Producer: David Susskind. Director: 
 Lela Swift. Writer: Anne Howard Bailey. With: Gary Merrill\, Glenda 
 Farrell\, Frank McHugh.\n\nPreservation funding provided by the John H. 
 Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. Digitally preserved by the UCLA 
 Film & Television Archive from a 16mm kinescope. Laboratory services by 
 Endpoint Audio Labs.
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
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