Posts Tagged ‘Peter Hollander’
Fred Barzyk’s Snapshots: Scene 5 – Opera, Film, and a Dream
I always dreamed of doing an original TV musical. Raposo and Lehrer were willing to work on the musical for no money. What we needed was a play.
Read MoreWhy Are They in The Fountain? (Late 1950s)
From Peter Hollander What are those two guys doing in the fountain? I don’t remember, but that’s Franco Romagnoli on the Arriflex and Peter clenching his pipe between his teeth giving instructions to two kids schnorkeling in the fountain. How can he talk that way? I remember nothing about this location shoot except that the…
Read MoreScience Experiments Gone Wrong (1957)
From Peter Hollander It must have been in 1957 that we did a science series hosted by Mary Lela Grimes. It was in the wonderful days of live TV and Mary Leila had gotten the world’s leading expert on the behavior of bats to appear on her show. He was either from Harvard or…
Read MoreI’ve Been Reading (late 1950s)
From Paul Noble Here’s a true story related to me by Bob Larsen about Norbert Wiener. Norbert Wiener and Isaac Asimov were a frequent pair on programs as diverse as I’ve Been Reading and Science Reporter. Each would request the other to join him when being interviewed. One day, Bob Larsen received a post card…
Read More“In the Beginning” – The WGBH Logo (1956)
From Don Hallock What does this image really mean, and how did it become the WGBH logo? Peter Hollander reminds us that his wife, Lilly, station art director from 1956 to 1958, first proposed use of the pictogram that became the WGBH logo, and remained so for many years. What it means Rudolph Koch, in…
Read MoreFootprints in your heart
From Rocky Coe – 1999 To Larry Creshkoff on the occasion of his seventy fifth birthday I remember a very exciting evening in a funky old building on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge when I switched on the lights in the little glassed-in room we then called studio B and you cued the cameras and the…
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