Throughout the interview Jarvis outlines her philosophy on good documentary production and on how the roles of women have grown in television industry. She recalls her documentary, The Louvre, and serving as the first producer of the first ABC Barbara Walters Specials. Jarvis reminisces about her acclaimed documentary The Kremlin and becoming the first Westerner to film there. She discusses her work on the public affairs series, The Nation's Future, and on coverage of the 1960 Presidential Election. She discusses her work at NBC's Capitol Close-Up, where she served as co-producer (with Meet the Press creator Martha Rountree), a rarity at that time. She speaks about how her criticism of a woman's show produced by David Susskind provoked him to request that she write a critical essay about it, which ultimately led to her first jobs in television. In her two-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Lucy Jarvis (1917-2020) chronicles her early years and how a degree in home economics led to her work at McCall's magazine in the 1940s.
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