Willis Conover and family captions transcript

Willis Conover and family

Home movie of Willis Conover and his third wife, Johara, with unidentified family members.
Date: 1958~
Creator: Conover, Willis
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Airlines: Preventative Maintenance and Progressive Overhaul captions transcript

American Airlines: Preventative Maintenance and Progressive Overhaul

Willis Conover narrates a promotional video featuring American Airlines' systems for preventative maintenance, progressive overhaul, and quality assurance.
Date: 196X
Creator: Peckham Productions Incorporated
System: The UNT Digital Library
Routes of American Airlines: Chicago; Dallas; San Francisco captions transcript

Routes of American Airlines: Chicago; Dallas; San Francisco

Willis Conover narrates promotional films for American Airlines. The films are from reels found in the Willis Conover Collection, not corrected for color. This set of films features large American cities.
Date: 196X
Creator: American Airlines
System: The UNT Digital Library
Routes of American Airlines: Montauk Point; Acapulco; San Diego captions transcript

Routes of American Airlines: Montauk Point; Acapulco; San Diego

Willis Conover narrates promotional films for American Airlines. The films are from reels found in the Willis Conover Collection, not corrected for color. This set of films features fishing destinations.
Date: 196X
Creator: American Airlines
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Voice captions transcript

The Voice

A documentary on the Voice of America, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
Date: 199X
Creator: United States Information Agency
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC News segment on the Voice of America captions transcript

NBC News segment on the Voice of America

A report by John Dancy of NBC News about changes and debates within the Voice of America under the Reagan administration. Willis Conover appears from 3:20 to 4:10.
Date: 1982~
Creator: NBC News
System: The UNT Digital Library
H.Res.189 - Honoring cultural achievements of the Voice of America, 103rd Congress of the United States captions transcript

H.Res.189 - Honoring cultural achievements of the Voice of America, 103rd Congress of the United States

Representatives Lee H. Hamilton (D., Indiana), Benjamin A. Gilman (R., New York) and Robert H. Michel (R., Illinois) speak on H. Res. 189 in the 103rd Congress, honoring the Voice of America and Willis Conover for their cultural programming related to jazz. Rep. Michel notes at the 7:22 mark that Conover is present for the resolution, though he is not shown on camera. Speaker Pro Tempore G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery (D., Mississippi) presides.
Date: June 8, 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. House
System: The UNT Digital Library
NBC News: Warsaw Jazz Jamboree captions transcript

NBC News: Warsaw Jazz Jamboree

NBC News segment on the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree and Willis Conover's influence on jazz in Eastern Europe.
Date: 198X
Creator: National Broadcasting Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Routes of American Airlines: Yosemite National Park; Niagara Falls; Grand Canyon National Park captions transcript

Routes of American Airlines: Yosemite National Park; Niagara Falls; Grand Canyon National Park

Willis Conover narrates promotional films for American Airlines. The films are from reels found in the Willis Conover Collection, not corrected for color. This set of films features two U.S. national parks, and Niagara Falls State Park.
Date: 196X
Creator: American Airlines
System: The UNT Digital Library
WRC feature on Willis Conover captions transcript

WRC feature on Willis Conover

WRC television feature on Willis Conover.
Date: 198X
Creator: WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short promotional film for Music USA captions transcript

Short promotional film for Music USA

A short promotional film, perhaps designed as a "day in the life" of Willis Conover. The film follows him from the Voice of America studios to a tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under construction, to the New York City club Jim and Andy's, at the piano with his wife at the time, Shirley Conover, and back to the studio.
Date: 1971~
Creator: Voice of America
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voice of America documentary: 50 Magnificent Years captions transcript

Voice of America documentary: 50 Magnificent Years

A documentary produced for the 50th anniversary of the Voice of America. Among many other interviewees, Willis Conover appears at 7:56, and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa appears at 13:44.
Date: 1992
Creator: Voice of America
System: The UNT Digital Library
Don't Shoot the Music! / Nie strzelać do muzyki! captions transcript

Don't Shoot the Music! / Nie strzelać do muzyki!

An extended montage of street musicians in New York City.
Date: 1979
Creator: Centralna Wytwórnia Programów i Filmów Telewizyjnych Poltel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover documentary on Polish television captions transcript

Willis Conover documentary on Polish television

Documentary broadcast on Poland's TVP2, from Conover's final visit to Poland in 1995. The program includes comments from Andrzej Jaroszewski, Paweł Brodowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Andrzej Trzaskowski, and photos from Marek Karewicz. The program is followed by a musical interlude, and the news program Panorama, and additional programming.
Date: 1995
Creator: TVP2
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obiektywnie o Willis Conover captions transcript

Obiektywnie o Willis Conover

Video program in tribute to jazz broadcaster Willis Conover, hosted by photographer Marek Karewicz.
Date: 199X
Creator: Karewicz, Marek
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover

Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover in conjunction with the program Dobro Utro (Good Morning). The program features interviews with passersby on the street, as well as Jordan Rupchev, along with extensive footage of Conover inside VOA studios, performance footage from Milcho Leviev, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Other topics continue at the 17:50 mark, concluding with the video of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green for the movie Scrooged.
Date: 1990~
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
CBS Nightwatch - Duke Ellington, April 28, 1989 / American Masters - John Hammond, August 20, 1990 captions transcript

CBS Nightwatch - Duke Ellington, April 28, 1989 / American Masters - John Hammond, August 20, 1990

Videotaped recordings of the April 28, 1989 episode of CBS Nightwatch, and the PBS American Masters documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen. Willis Conover is interviewed along with Mercer Ellington in the CBS Nightwatch segment beginning at 10:19. Due to copyright restrictions, streaming access is embargoed.
Date: 1989/1990
Creator: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Duke Named Ellington captions transcript

A Duke Named Ellington

A PBS documentary on Duke Ellington, from the network's American Masters series, with interview and performance footage of Duke Ellington, Herb Jeffries, Adelaide Hall, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, Charles Mingus, Alice Babs, Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry, Cootie Williams, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Leonard Feather, Louie Bellson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and Alvin Ailey, among others. Streaming access to this item is embargoed due to copyright restrictions.
Date: 1988
Creator: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library