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Multimedia: Remembering the James Brown concert that calmed Boston
Ambrosino had already begun assembling “the one group of guys who could pull off such a last-minute live broadcast: producer Russ Morash, director David Atwood, along with (crew) Al Potter and Greg Harney.”
Read MoreSteve Jobs, unedited
WGBH Open Vault has posted 50 minutes of raw footage from a series called The Machine That Changed The World from 1990.
Read MoreA. Beth DuVal Deare, 63, “Say Brother” producer
From the WGBH employee newsletter: The WGBH community mourns the loss of A. Beth DuVal Deare, the former producer of Say Brother (now Basic Black) and several award-winning documentaries, who died Mon, 2/21, in a fire at her home in Newton.
Read MoreMy interview with Virgil Fox on WGBH-FM 1974
From WGBH & Friends
Read MoreAudio: Marcia Hulley Says Goodbye to 125
Marcia Hulley says farewell to twenty-seven years at 125 Western Avenue.
Read MoreMoney for Nothin’ at the CPB (video and lyrics)
Written by WGBH Vice President Lance Ozier. Performed 3/21/07 at the “Liroff Liftoff” farewell event by “Henry Becton and The Platform Agnostics”
Read MoreCrew Training Tape – Transcript (1962)
From Don Hallock This tape was shot in the temporary studio at the Boston Museum of Science. It was intended as an in-house training tool, primarily for new BU student interns. It puroprted to be a catalog of many of the most frequently perpetrated production errors portrayed in comic relief. Response at the April reunion…
Read MoreThe 1961 WGBH Fire
From Don Hallock In the early morning hours of October 14, 1961, a raging fire at the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studios of WGBH completely destroyed the facility. WGBH FM and TV were located in the second and third floors of a three story roller former skating rink. The fire, which began in the studio-A area,…
Read MoreDiscovering Discovery (1956)
From Don Hallock This 1956 film about the making of Mary Lela Grimes (Sherburne’s) kinescoped NET series on science for children was resurrected for the reunion. It is a show within a film, showcasing the 84 Massachusetts Avenue facility and many of our best remembered WGBH friends. A teleprompter mounted on the front of Frank…
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