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Dusty Films. Wolper's recent Dday, for example, was a one-hour compilation of film material made by cameramen on both sides. It contained shots of awful immediacy. A soldier comes out of the breakers onto Omaha Beach. He is hit by a bullet, sits down slowly with his legs apart, like a child about to build a castle of sand, then falls backwards to die. An other shot showed Ike sitting on the running board of an old car in North Africa, chomping on a sandwich, while Franklin Roosevelt sat on the seat above him, also eating...
...Wolper chronicles great men in a widely syndicated TV program called Biography and unusual occupations in another excellent series called The Story of (a jockey, an artist, etc.). For contemporary subjects, he likes to use natural light and hand-held cameras in a simple and highly mobile technique. When hunting film clips, he will go to any amount of trouble to find the rare touches that make his documentaries distinctive. His award-winning Hollywood: The Golden Years contained dusty Swedish films of young Greta Garbo doing movie-house commercials for a Stockholm bakery...
Instant Leaders. Wolper entered show business soon after World War II, when-a light-year or so ahead of anyone else-he and a few partners saw the gold pile that could be made by acquiring rights to old motion pictures and selling them to TV. He was largely responsible for the late shows, late late shows, and late late late shows in dozens of cities...
Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from...
...Good Life. The son of a Manhattan real estate man, Wolper now lives quietly and richly in the canyoned subtropics of Los Angeles' Bel Air. where real estate is so expensive that a single sunbather can cover $2,000 worth of land...