Posts Tagged ‘Great American Dream Machine’
Ambrosino and Nova: making stories that go ‘bang’
I wanted to examine how the world worked, to use the scientific process of discovery as a narrative device to tell good stories. Producers are a naturally curious lot and good documentaries are made out of that curiosity.
Read MoreTo PBS, With (Tough) Love
From Bill Moyers: Public television has faithfully provided an enormous national stage where non-fiction films can be seen by far more people than could ever buy tickets at the handful of movie houses willing to put documentaries up on their theater screens.
Read MoreWhat’s (Still) Happening Mr. Silver?
From WGBH Quicknooz (used by permission) David Silver, who hosted and wrote his own WGBH talk show, What’s Happening Mr. Silver?, and produced PBS’s first weekly magazine series, Great American Dream Machine, will debut his one-man show, From Mod to G-D, at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City on 8/29. The show incorporates…
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.
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