Korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University Student because it sounded deeply jewish. At first he spelled it corda, then he changed it to korda because it looks hungarian that way. Host what did he do . Guest he was, perhaps, the prototypical film producer, film czar, also film director. He directed his first film at a teenage age in 1914 and directed at least a hundred and perhaps twice that many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many. Many, many, many. Europe, United Kingdom where he eventually settled and, of course, in hollywood in periods when he was there. He was an affable genius, and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . He, your father and your other uncle . Guest well, you know, first of all, an enormous respect for talent of any kind. By definition, people who were good at making films are good at recognizing all sorts of talent even if they dont share it them
Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University Student because it sounded deeply jewish. At first he spelled it corda, then he changed it toor host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was perhaps at the prototypical Film Producer also film director. Directed hit first film at a teenage age in 1914, and directed at least 100 and perhaps twice as many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many, many, many, many. Europe, United Kingdom, and of course in hollywood, when he was there. He was an affable genius, and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . Guest he, your father, and your other uncle . Guest well, you know, first of all, an enormous respect for talent of any kind. By definition. People were good at making films, got at recognizing talent, even though they dont share it themselves. And secondly, although they were inte
Alex kellner . Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University St as a University Student, because it sounded jewish. At first he spelled the new name crda, then changed it to korda because it looks hungarian that way. Host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was the prototypical film producer, also film director. He directed his first film at a teenage age in 1914 and directed at least 100 or twice that many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many. Europe, the United Kingdom, hollywood when he was fair, he was an affable genius and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . He and your father and your other uncle . Guest and enormous respect for talent of any kind. He was that making films and recognizing all sorts of talent even if they dont share it themselves. Secondly although they were in tense at making the best possibl
Feats that are now a comic symbols of new york city. This event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. Thank you, lois. I want to thank the library for organizing this event. Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Luddite, im im a just a technological idiot. Not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Cute, itrying to be too took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an
But it is not about that. Host max schuster did not publish the autobiography. Guest no he did not. I remember telling him what a great historical document took this book to those elections in what that said was it is a masterpiece but i do not want my name on the same book as albert. It is wrong but we will not publish a new book is not easy for a publisher to say that i am not saying random house i dont want to publish a separate probe. Host indiana please go ahead with your question or comment. Caller yes mr. Korda i have a question about the wars. With your work as a writer and they have presented but it appears 9 11 was the inside job. Guest i will not comment on that. It does not look like that. I think it was an act of terror. Host arlington virginia. Lhe groundwork for the modern, hightech world we live in by investing a tremendous amount in science and technology. The creation of the first satellite and the Defense Advanced Research products agency, darpa, and other endeavors