A Filmmaker's Journal - Couverture souple

Glimcher, Sumner Jules

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1477619682 ISBN 13 : 9781477619681

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Glimcher Sumner Jules

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sumner Jules Glimcher Professor Emeritus, NYU Was graduated from Harvard in 1948 with a degree in Nuclear Physics. He began his career as a Page at NBC where he spent six years in a variety of promotions working on all programs originating in New York. In 1954 he became the Administrator of Programming at Radio Free Europe in Munich, where he worked in all aspects of International Broadcasting. He returned to the US in 1957 where he created the first independent international voiced news agency for broadcasting, the precursor of CNN. Then he became the Director of International News for WOR and RKO General. He joined National Educational Television (precursor to PBS) where he was the Director of International Acquisitions, and then became the Director of the Center for Mass Communication at Columbia University where he also began his teaching career. After ten years of producing dozens of documentaries, he resigned to start his second company, Mass Communications, Inc., where he continued to create independent documentaries and became a consultant to the President of Harvard, the United Nations and for more than twenty years, the Consulate General of Japan. He has given Video Workshops on eleven luxury cruise liners. His films have earned more than three-dozen national and international awards. In 1988 he was named as the Director of the Department of ‘Film, Video and Broadcasting’ at NYU’s School of Continuing Education, where he was largely responsible for creating one of the finest film programs on the East Coat. He retired from NYU in 1998 and then established Westminster Productions, Inc., where he continues to produce films and shows documentaries for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in a pro bono series titled, “Meet The Filmmaker.” He has just completed his memoir titled, “A Filmmaker’s Journal.” It is available as an enhanced ebook and in a standard print format. For more information about Sumner and his work, please visit www.sumnerjulesglimcher.com or www.westminsterproductions.com

Présentation de l'éditeur :

After almost being killed during the Battle of the Bulge, and then as an interpreter, investigator and prosecutor in Military Government after the war sending NAZIs to Nuremberg, how does a Nuclear Physics Major at Harvard, go from being an NBC Page to creating and directing NYU’s Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting, at its School of Continuing Education, one of the finest film schools on the east coast? And, along the way, making films about poverty in Latin America, “Confucius,” the settlement of the American Southwest, and the historic “Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August, 1945,” earning more than three dozen national and international awards, becoming a consultant to the President of Harvard, the United Nations and, for more than twenty years, the Government of Japan? And, during his spare time, being an expert lecturer on eleven luxury cruise ships?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477619682
• ISBN 13: 9781477619681
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292