Alice Wathan Interview Research Paper
Interviewer: Taylor Ellison
Interviewee: Alice Wathan
Relationship: Grandmother
When interviewing my grandma I had a lot of fun. It was neat learning from her experiences and being able to learn about some of her childhood that I did not already know about. Because she is always listening to her records I decided to start off with that subject. When I brought this up I found it interesting that her face lightened up and it was almost as if she was glowing. I asked her many things and I loved the way she went into so much detail about a specific artist. She talked about Rockabilly a lot! I can’t remember everything she said because she talked to fast but I do remember that she said “He was the best country western artist of the …show more content…
I did however get her to answer some questions. She thought that it was weird when television first came out because she could actually see the story instead of just hearing it. She said that the screen was a lot smaller then screens are now a days. She also said that it was a lot more blurry back then. The first television was around $500.
She also said this “Me and my sisters would usually come home from school do our homework and watch tv until dinner. We did become less active and did not go outside as much.” Suprisingly she remembered a lot about the quiz show scandals. She knew that the scandal happened around 1956 when the producer, Dan Enright, of the game show Twenty-One, that was hosted by Jack Barry, coached a contestant to make the other contestant when the game.. She said that the scandal did not come out until around 1958. Due to this, many networks cancelled their game shows. One things she said really caught my attention. It was this. “Back then the shows were family oriented. Anybody could watch any television show. Now there are a lot more shows on crimes and shows that are much more provocative.” My grandma was a very interesting person to interview, and I am glad I got the
Interviewee: Alice Wathan
Relationship: Grandmother
When interviewing my grandma I had a lot of fun. It was neat learning from her experiences and being able to learn about some of her childhood that I did not already know about. Because she is always listening to her records I decided to start off with that subject. When I brought this up I found it interesting that her face lightened up and it was almost as if she was glowing. I asked her many things and I loved the way she went into so much detail about a specific artist. She talked about Rockabilly a lot! I can’t remember everything she said because she talked to fast but I do remember that she said “He was the best country western artist of the …show more content…
I did however get her to answer some questions. She thought that it was weird when television first came out because she could actually see the story instead of just hearing it. She said that the screen was a lot smaller then screens are now a days. She also said that it was a lot more blurry back then. The first television was around $500.
She also said this “Me and my sisters would usually come home from school do our homework and watch tv until dinner. We did become less active and did not go outside as much.” Suprisingly she remembered a lot about the quiz show scandals. She knew that the scandal happened around 1956 when the producer, Dan Enright, of the game show Twenty-One, that was hosted by Jack Barry, coached a contestant to make the other contestant when the game.. She said that the scandal did not come out until around 1958. Due to this, many networks cancelled their game shows. One things she said really caught my attention. It was this. “Back then the shows were family oriented. Anybody could watch any television show. Now there are a lot more shows on crimes and shows that are much more provocative.” My grandma was a very interesting person to interview, and I am glad I got the