Posts Tagged ‘Al Potter’
Live Music Television at WGBH: Cosel, Atwood, and Norton
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That’s how we learned how to direct: live. We didn’t have any choice. We did stuff live because we couldn’t afford to record it!
Read MoreGordon Mehlman Shares Memories of WGBH Engineering Innovations
When I applied to WGBH in 1968, I had already interacted with the engineering department and so was lucky enough to be hired immediately.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How I Got There
John Kerr: Having finished college in 1960, I locked my Ideor racing bike to a post near Tech Drugs and climbed the stairs at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Read MoreControl Rooms Across the Decades
A walk down the memory lane of control rooms past and present.
Read MoreMichael Colgrass, 87, composer featured on the first “Soundings”
Colgrass was the focus of the first program in the 1970s WGBH “Soundings” series. Soundings was produced by Bunny Olenick and directed by Fred Barzyk.
Read MoreMultimedia: 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 MoreHelp us catalog WGBH “firsts” in national public media
We’re looking for your recommendations, corrections, and confirmations of WGBH’s national innovations over the decades.
Read MoreDavid Atwood: Getting started at WGBH
From David Atwood Needing a job fresh out of college in the fall of 1965 I made an alphabetical list of Boston’s TV stations. The first was WBZ. I set out from Woburn, found WBZ and went in looking for work. They said they might start me in the mail room. I was devastated. I…
Read MoreWGBH Pioneers: Michael Ambrosino – Part 1 (1998)
Michael Ambrosino — the creator of NOVA — describes his early years at WGBH, an era of live and live-on-tape TV productions at the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studio in Cambridge.
Read MoreWGBH Pioneers: Michael Ambrosino – Part 2 (1998)
Michael Ambrosino — the creator of NOVA — describes his early years at WGBH, an era of live and live-on-tape TV productions at the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studio in Cambridge.
Read MorePhotos from Al Hinderstein — 1961-64
Text from Don Hallock The inimitable Hindy lensing a camera at Brandeis University for Prospects of Mankind. (June 1961) Hindy as the acting film manager, timing tapes in the tape room down in the basement of the Catholic Television Center. (August 10, 1962) Al says: “This is MIT Science Reporter at the Cambridge Accelerator Lab.…
Read MoreReunion Reunion
From Don Hallock A small group of reunion activists met at WGBH Tuesday evening to discuss ideas for keeping us connected, and plans for future events. Among those present were Fred Barzyk, Connie White, David Atwood, Amy Meyers, Olivia Tappan, Sharon Rivo, Michael Ambrosino, Al Potter, Peggy McLeod, Moon Nimon, Jo Madden, Mary Ide, Nora…
Read MoreThe Party IX
155. (Back) Jo Madden, Susan Presson with (front) Moon Nimon and Paul Souza. 156. Thea Chalow, Eleanor Jewett, Bill Charrette and Eliat Goldman. 157. David Atwood and Connie White with half of Al Potter. 158. Peter Cook and Fred Barzyk with Sean Hallock. 159. Jeff Dunn and Peter Cook. 160. Peter and Sally Cook. 161.…
Read MoreFriday night at the Zebra Lounge
From Don Hallock — 2000 The Zebra Lounge will be remembered by those who frequented it, as a rather ordinary, dimly lit, smoke-filled watering-hole on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street. Today it’s known as The Crossroads. For years, in the late ’50s, the Zebra served as an after-work hangout for Boston University…
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