Word: wolper
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This fall, MARCH OF TIME will march on again with a half-hour weekly show on television. Time Inc.'s partner in the production of a modern MARCH OF TIME series is the prestigious documentary filmmaker, David L. Wolper, president of Wolper Productions Inc., whose credits include such memorable films as The Making of the President 1960 (20 international awards, four Emmies), D-Day and Hollywood: The Golden Years. Alan Landsburg, producer of Wolper's Peabody Award-winning Biography and Men in Crisis series, will be executive producer...
...venture will have a substantial store of resources to draw from: Wolper's own 200-man team plus the TIME-LIFE News Service, reference library and picture collection, and the M.O.T. and Wolper film libraries (the latter includes the complete Paramount Newsreel footage). Important as these libraries will be in supplying history on film, Wolper says that most of the shooting will be fresh-about 90% new, 10% clips...
...original MARCH OF TIME was a great departure from the everyday newsreel and made moviegoers look forward to the next release," says Producer Wolper. "So will the new MARCH OF TIME establish a new standard for the television documentary and capture the imagination of a new audience. It will be a living record of the great events and personalities of our time...
...David Wolper documentary examining some of the men involved in today's most exciting scientific and artistic projects: Dr. Michael DeBakey, developer of an implantable artificial heart; R. M. Worthy, who has programmed a computer to write poetry; Lukas Foss, composer of avant-garde music: Paolo Soleri, architect of a "total community...
...Warren Commission's report. But pictures can indeed speak louder than words. This film, the first in which the massive photographic record (more than 2,000,000 ft.) of the tragedy is assembled and analyzed, adduces no new evidence, proposes no exotic theories. Produced by David Wolper, who in 1963 put together a prizewinning TV documentary (The Making of the President, 1960) about Kennedy's election, Four Days is essentially an extended newsreel, a rough anthology of television tapes, amateur movies and reconstructed scenes. Much of the footage has never been shown before; some of it is striking...