Hollywood directors, 1941-1976 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski.

A novel isn´t a movie / Richard Brooks -- Europeans in Hollywood / William Dieterle -- Directing in CinemaScope / Henry Koster -- Three-dementia / Arch Oboler -- Underwater filmmaking / Richard Fleischer -- The financing of independent feature films / Terry Sanders -- More light / Josef von Sternberg -- Talent shortage is causing two-year production delay / Michael Curtiz -- Story into script / Nicholas Ray -- Introduction to A Face in the Crowd / Elia Kazan -- One head is better than two / Billy Wilder -- Motion pictures and pay tv / Mervyn Leroy -- Hoodlums: the myth / Robert Siodmak -- Ben-Hur´s chariot race / Andrew Marton -- Learning from my mistakes / Robert Aldrich -- Words and movies / Stanley Kubrick -- My invasion of Marseilles / Joshua Logan -- How the west was lost! / John Sturges -- No end of stars / Henry King -- Empire demolition / Anthony Mann -- What is a film? / Samuel Fuller -- Criticism as creation / John Frankenheimer --^

Orson Welles writing about Orson Welles / Orson Welles -- Controlling color for dramatic effect / Rouben Mamoulian -- ´Peccavi!´ the true confession of a movie producer / Albert Lewin -- Bringing pulham to the screen / King Vidor -- Picture partners / John Huston -- New characters for the screen / Robert Rossen -- Pictures for peanuts / Nick Grinde -- Seeing with the camera / Irving Pichel -- Breaking Hollywood´s ´pattern of sameness´ / Frank Capra -- Music and the animated cartoon / Chuck Jones -- No magic wand / William Wyler -- Chaplin among the immortals / Jean Renoir -- One track mind on a two way ticket / George Seaton -- The freedom of the screen / Fritz Lang -- Different perspective / Fred Zinnemann -- First aid for a sick giant / Lewis Milestone -- Production methods compared / Alfred Hitchcock -- The producer must be boss / Clarence Brown -- The director´s art / George Sidney -- Directing Death of a Salesman for the screen / Laslo Benedek --^

Some notes for young dancers / Gene Kelly -- Bonnie an Clyde: private morality and public violence / Arthur Penn -- ´Well, how do you like directing movies?´ / Gene Saks -- Me, mother directress / Ida Lupino -- The director and the editor / Edward Dmytryk -- The young filmmakers / Roger Corman -- Anatomy of a chase / William Friedkin -- The production of smile / Michael Ritchie.