For any aspiring filmmaker in Ontario, Canada, Elwy Yost was the man. His hosting of OECA/TVO's program Saturday Night at the Movies was essentially a film school in a box. Through his interviews with everyone from old movie stars to technical people such as producers, directors, writers, and composers, Yost presented a 'film appreciation' course like no other.While scanning for Roger Corman-themed videos on Youtube, I came across this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Takjlf2WrZc
... I watched the first two minutes not giving much thought as to where the video source came from until Elwy Yost could be heard asking a question. (You will have to turn the audio way up on your computer in order to hear the file properly. Just make sure to turn it back down again at the end, like I rarely do.)
In this documentary, not the full length by the looks of things, Elwy interviews Roger Corman and Vincent Price about working on AIP's (American International Pictures) "Poe films". For those of you have not seen any of them, be sure to watch at least one. My favourites are The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death. A warning to knowledgeable fans of Edgar Allan Poe's works: These films are very loosely based on the writer's stories. As a matter of fact, in the case of Masque, some H.P. Lovecraft's story "Hop Frog" is mixed in with Poe. Price makes a good point that a short story, by itself, hardly furnishes a 90 minute movie.
Masterful films.
Article on Elwy Yost...
http://www.simcoe.com/article/104717
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