Comments on: The Night in 1968 I Was Born: Public Broadcast Laboratory’s “Birth and Death” http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/ Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Gorelick http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-3126 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:03:13 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-3126 Perhaps your comment here will be caught by someone searching the Internet. I have no idea. But should you find something, you will have no more eager audience member.

]]> By: Emily Squires http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-3125 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:12:03 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-3125 I was a PA on PBL and worked on the film with Arnie Baskin and David Brenner about Nicholas Rabe and migrant workers in the San Joachin Valley . I have looked everywhere for it. PBS seems to have a few PBL films but not this one. If anyone has a suggestion where I might search further, I’d appreciate it.
Many thanks,
Emily Squires

]]> By: Steve Gorelick http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-3040 Wed, 26 May 2010 01:20:41 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-3040 Arnie

A pleasure to hear from you. I have no idea where they may be. I would give anything to see a number of those early PBLs. They really did open a new world to me, a world that I have happily inhabited ever since the first night PBL was on the air.

In fact, the early one-two knockout punch of my adolescence, the most formative and inspiring things I saw, were 1) the first night of PBL with the back to back docs “Birth” and “Death” and 2) the day at UCLA a year or two later when a large group of us at the Melnitz Film Archive saw the Maysles brothers film Salesman for the first time. My 10 favorite doc list has always had Salesman at #1. 40 years!

Now let me ask you a question: Just this minute I had a flashback and imagined that the earliest host on the first PBL magazine-show experiment was Sandy Vanocur. Am I hallucinating?

Best Steve

]]> By: prof. a. baski http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-3039 Tue, 25 May 2010 22:15:59 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-3039 dear steve,\\

i worked for pbl as a cameraman for a couple of years…..i worked on several documentaries at pbl (particularly one about the welfare system which had barbarba jordan in it…i often wondered where pbl stores these films…..do you have an idea or do you know anyone who might know…..thanks, prof.arnie baskin
(i now teach at the nyu film school)

]]> By: Michael Nolan http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-2877 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:06:56 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-2877 From 1967-69, I was on the staff of PBL. The highlight was working with Don Lenzer on “Fathers and Sons”, a documentary about radical students at Stanford, which aired in 1969.

Tomorrow, Don flies from NYC to San Francisco to screen his 1968 film about the SF Mime Troupe, which he did for King Screen Productions of Seattle. It will be wonderful to see him.

]]> By: Thomas Robinson http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-465 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:58:42 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-465 Does anyone know about Hear Us Oh Lord, documentary about court ordered school integration from the late 1960s by PBL. I got a print of that. Thomas Robinson

]]> By: Steve Gorelick http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-420 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:19:12 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-420 What a story Jim. I will look into this immediately. I would love to know what happened to your films! Thanks for sharing your story. They sound extraordinary.

Steve

]]> By: jim desmond http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/06/22/the-night-in-1968-i-was-born-public-broadcast-laboratorys-birth-and-death/#comment-418 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:02:11 +0000 http://mediaandmayhem.com/?p=150#comment-418 in 1968 my partner, Nick Proferes & i made 4 films for PBL:CARL STOKES (the first black mayor of a major city in the US, Cleveland ohio;GEORGE WALLACE & HIS AMERICANS ( the governor running for president ) ; RENAISSANCE, a classical music film and FREE AT LAST.(we spent the last 3 months of his life with Dr Martin Luther King as he began the Poor Peoples Campaign. It won the Venice Prize for best TV documentary of the year 1968 and was an Emmy nominee. They, PBS, then PBL (WNET IN NEW YORK the actual owners of the film) HAVE LOST ALL OF THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL FOR ALL OF THES FILMS. Did you see any of those? They showed once and disappeared into the ozone.
Jim Desmond

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