[Frameworks] Auteur Television

[Ken Bawcom]

My favorite PBS, back in the day, was Marshal Ephron's "Great American  
Dream Machine." Frenetic social satire, nonfiction. I'd call it auteur  
television.

Ken B.



Quoting Ken Paul Rosenthal <kenpaulrosenthal at hotmail.com>:

>
> As a kid in the late 60'sI thought 'The Electric Company' was the bomb.
> Viewed side by side with 'Sesame Street'I could tell the folks who  
> produced 'EC'were putting something different in their breakfast  
> cerealeven though I was took young to conceptualize what that  
> substance might be.
> Same with 'Gumby'--I swear it was Gumbythat precluded any interest  
> as a young adultin hallucinagenic substances.
> Lastly, I was mad for 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in'The quick zooms,  
> and especially the rapid, non-linear editingwas a radical  
> alternative to the status quo.(not to mention Goldie Hawn's tummy).
> Very interesting to look back on these (and other shows)to consider  
> the seeds they planted which had no place to blossomuntil we  
> discovered 'experimental film' much further down the road.
> Rather difficult to imagine where I'd be--both artistically and  
> physically--at this moment had I not seen 'Dog Star Man' presented  
> by Stan in personat SFAI back around '87.
> Ken
>
>



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deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin 1775

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Pete Townshend 1971