Word: wolper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, professional camera crews had been filming nearly every facet of the dinner for use in Jackson's unusual, slickly contrived announcement last week of his candidacy for the presidency. The five-minute documentary, created for Jackson by Producer David Wolper at a total cost of $30,000 (including air time on the CBS network), opened with the candidate rising from his table at the Century Plaza to the applause of the guests and beginning his speech to them. The scene set an affective cinema verite tone for the filmed highlights of Jackson's career that followed...
...appears to have some cash, and can get cheaper rates since they're showing on a small scale and mostly short films and some free movies. It looks from the lists as though they screen Eastern European and some radical films (a biography of Mao Tap-Tung by David Wolper ended yesterday), and their principle--especially for the children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight...
...many MTM shows, breaking up at his own jokes. With two good reasons: the gags are hilarious and, more significant, they are worth about $1,000 per punch line. Not so long ago, Brooks' rates were far less inflationary. He broke in as a junior writer at Wolper Productions. "The senior documentary writers used to call the juniors 'the animals,' " he recalls. "When they were through with a telephone they'd toss it over their shoulders and let one of the animals hang it up for them. I ran from that place...
...President is the convention star on celluloid as well as in person. Three films are shown on Nixon and family, all produced by David Wolper. The camera pans in on the President at work. Speaking into an Oval Office phone, he orders: "Get off a telephone call or message to Connally. What does he think? I suppose he went up the wall." Staffers enter-an act not to be undertaken lightly, the narrator warns. "The President must be jealous of his time. Whatever they bring him must be pertinent and precise." White House Aide John Ehrlichman chats with...
...networks' editors have done well in maintaining their purity. The only major recent controversy, other than the Pentagon program, concerned a polemical antihunting film shown on NBC. In it, a female polar bear with two cubs is apparently stalked by helicopter and gunned down. Actually, as Producer David Wolper admits, the killing was simulated by splicing in footage of a bear being felled by an anesthetic dart in a game-department tagging program...