[QuadList] Don's tape from Mark Amistead Productions...

[Don Norwood]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Langdell 
  To: Quad List 
  Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [QuadList] Don's tape from Mark Amistead Productions...


  Hi, Don,


  Thanks for the update.


  Do the low band and high band segments contain the same content?

  It is possible that the LB scene may also be on the HB segment.  Since there is a splice between the LB and HB segments, they could both be the same take.  I have not compared them to be sure.   However, there are multiple scenes on the HB portion of the tape and only a single scene on the LB. 

  Maybe you have the only videotape copy surviving? (See bold text below.)

  That is very interesting!  The quality is certainly far above what the Kine would be.  However, what is on the tape is not the finished program.  It appears to be the original recording of the program segments.  There are multiple takes of several parts, and the HB section begins with a long period of black with the studio mics open so that you hear the audience coming in and some of the conversations among them prior to the performance.


  Is there a Copyright date and owner on paper or in the credits?

  No.


  Here's what I can find about the program:


  A google for "Meet Marcel Marceau" reveals this on Amazon.com:


  Product Description
  1965-USA A one-man show in 9 parts by the most famous contemporary pantomimist. MARCEL MARCEAU himself does voice-over introductions of his various skits. A Paris street-tough finds a wallet; at the circus; the magician; the kite; the matador; at a society party; "The Passage Of Time;" Don Juan and a special tribute to Harpo Marx, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin. "Bip," the famous Marceau character, goes through his paces - a modern tradition. TV kinescope performed before a live audience...video quality lacks definition in places, but its well worth the opportunity to "Meet Marcel Marceau." 52 minutes.


  Further poking around turned up "an RKO General production in association with Ronald A. Wilford Associates ; produced and written by Wally Sherwin ; director, Bob Searles" on this site: http://udm.dalnet.lib.mi.us/


  Wilford is engaged in artist management. He currently heads CAMI, Columbia Artists Managment, Inc., in NYC, and turns up in connection with Marceau's shows.  A NY Times item about Wilford reports:  "In 1955, he staked his savings on the first American tour of the French mime Marcel Marceau. Mr. Marceau was a smash, and Mr. Wilford, building on that success, mastered the business of touring attractions."


  Sherwin passed away last year, according to an LA Times obituary:
  SHERWIN, Walter J. Wally Sherwin, born August 26, 1918, passed away  peacefully on August 6, 2008 in Van Nuys, CA.  Wally was a noted TV/Radio executive who served as Program Director  and then General Manager at KHJ Channel 9 television from 1961-1969. 




  The March 9, 1964 edition of Box Office reports that:

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