TAKE THIS HAMMER with James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, Janet Flanner and "Ross Macdonald" and others on THE WRITER IN AMERICA, and producer/director/editor/interviewer Richard O. Moore

                         James Baldwin in Take This Hammer

THE WRITER IN AMERICA series producer/director/editor/interviewer Richard O. Moore:

Moore interviewed: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/210522

mostly discussing his 1963 National Educational Television (NET) documentary 

TAKE THIS HAMMER (based on a tour of 1963 African-American San Francisco by James Baldwin);

fuller director's cut: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/216518

broadcast cut: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-2r3nv9b09w  first aired on February 4th 1964.

Other episodes in the series IMDb is aware of:

Season 1: Janet Flanner

Robert Duncan (IMDb has the wrong copy attached to this record)

Season 3: Wright Morris

Season 4: John Gardner

Muriel Rukeyser

Toni Morrison 

Ross Macdonald (misspelled at IMDb)

Eudora Welty

--see below and at bottom of post for links to archived video online.

Toni Morrison on The Writer in America (sadly, Google, as owner of Blogspot and YouTube, currently at least makes it difficult to embed any video not from, you guessed it, YouTube).

Janet Flanner on The Writer in America and five more episodes linked below/at bottom of post (so far...).

Millar/"Macdonald" and Welty

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 Paul DiFilippo noted:

The 30-minute film is embedded at the link [at CrimeReads]

https://crimereads.com/this-1970s-film-about-ross-macdonald-is-fascinating-and-unexpectedly-beautiful/ 

 Tiny URL:

https://tinyl.io/3FeZ

Current direct YouTube link to the Macdonald episode (as with all these episodes as currently archived, damage to the source film or perhaps video distorts the Duke Ellington Orchestra score, alas): 

https://youtu.be/iT3QpPfH39Q

Further episodes of The Writer in America (courtesy Tony Baer):

Robert Duncan

John Gardiner

Wright Morris

Muriel Rukeyser