Typewriter Artist
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Paul Smith, the Typewriter artist. Originally aired March-April of 1976 on KOIN-TV in Portland Oregon.At-Large Reporter Ray Summers wrote and narrated. I shot, edited and selected the music. Ray learned about Paul from a newspaper feature in the Roseburg, Oregon newspaper. Ray and I roamed Southern Oregon for a week in February and dropped by the Roseburg nursing home one wintry morn. We were in and out in 90 minutes, but what we captured was an amazing story on many levels.I shot the story with a single system Frezzolini 16mm film camera. I shot daylight Ektachrome with dichroic filters on my lights since so much daylight was coming in the windows. I put an ECM-50 microphone inside Paul's typewriter to capture the sound. I got the music from my personal library.A week or two later, Assignment Editor Norm Gunning gave me a whole day to cut this piece. I synched 4 reels of film and sound and pretaped to 2 inch tape. By the reaction of the crew we knew we had a special piece.I submitted the piece to the National Press Photographer Association's 2nd quarter clip contest in 1976. It won 1st place nationally as the best television news story.It had been lost on 3/4" Beta tape in my hot attic for years. I just bought an used 3/4" deck off EBay and recorded this story to my computer. It suffers a bit from generation loss. I count 3 generations: film, 2 inch tape, 3/4" tape. Enjoy.Mark Gardner is a regular contributor to WhackyNation.com.
Canal: People & Blogs
Añadido: January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am
Autor: NorthwestCamera
Duración: 03:37
Puntuación: 5.00
Reproducciones: 17556
Etiquetas: art Artist disabled Gardner home Mark nursing Paul Ray Roseburg Smith Summers Typewriter wheelchair
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TzTz2 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
inspiring...to say the least!
celestial4you (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
wow, that's amazing...
wingtote (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
i can't believe be it truly amazing
RaineChilde (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
He has the patience of the Gods but amazing, amazing foresight!
hapsblog (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
I remember this being on..whatever show Mike Wallace to used to be on (60 minutes?) and the guy doing a picture of President Reagan.At least, I think that's right. I miss Ray Summer and Grant McOmie, two Portland main-stays.
zenmachinefilms (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Simply amazing. This is a golden slice of television. Worth of all the awards it won, and then some.
iridis (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
That is truely astonishing.
highintel (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
This guy lives in roseburg?
pinguhunter (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Great... amazing... thanks for posting!
chrispdx (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Ray Summers at large....
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