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...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A David Wolper production (the first non-CBS-produced news show ever broadcast by the network), based on T. H. White's bestseller...
...authorized certain secretaries to imitate his signature, and used mechanical robots to trace his name. Highest-priced J.F.K. item so far is the letter he wrote a friend from boarding school at the age of 15, signed "Smuttily yours, Jack Kennedy," which was sold to Movie Producer David L. Wolper two months...
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...