The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has announced that they are making over 450 interviews with key figures and legends of the television industry from the Archive of American Television available via Google Video.

These interviews are amazing. It’s like a free in-depth class on the finer points of the business of broadcast production!
There are multi-part interviews with people like Dick Wolf, Angela Lansbury, Phil Donahue, Ted Turner, Michael J. Fox, Ossie Davis, Bob Newhart, Grant Tinker, and Ed McMahon, to name a few. The sheer amount of material is staggering. Most of the interview segments are right around 30min in length, and many span 6, 8, and 10+ segments. All are encoded in streaming flash video, and since it’s Google we’re talking about, well, the performance of the video streams is virtually perfect.

Check it out, and learn something.