Michael Shamberg (born 1945)[1] is an American former Time-Life correspondent and current film producer. The Time-Life company was founded by Time Incorporated in 1961 as a book marketing division A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca and Pulp Fiction. Erin Brockovich is a 2000 Drama film which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich 's first fight against the American West Coast A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 Comedy film released by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton and directed Garden State is a 2004 film written directed by and starring Zach Braff, with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and co-starring Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction Drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma His production companies include Jersey Films, with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and Double Feature Films, with his wife, Carla Santos Shamberg. Stacey Sher is a Film producer. Her credits include Along Came Polly, Erin Brockovich, Pulp Fiction, Daniel Michael DeVito Jr (born November 17 1944 is an American Actor, director and producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal
In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1972, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. TVTV (short for Top Value Television) was a San Francisco -based pioneering video collective founded in 1972 by Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg The collective believed new technology could effect social change.
Shamberg preferred the term Guerrilla television (the title of his 1971 book), because despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, Guerrilla television is non-violent. In the 1960s and 1970s counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies He saw Guerrilla television as a means to break through the barriers imposed by Broadcast television, which he called beast television. Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission
The group urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, introduced in 1968, to be merged with the documentary film style and television, and later pioneering the use of 3/4" video in their works. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with The Portapak introduced in 1967 was the first portable video recording device Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality
See also
- Public access television
- Lord of the Universe (documentary), 1974, won a DuPont-Columbia Award[2][3][4]
References
- ^ Michael Shamberg Biography (1945?-)
- ^ DuPont-Columbia Award, Columbia University, The Journalism School, The Lord of the Universe
The Lord of the Universe, Subject: RELIGION, News Organization: TVTV, Awarded: 1974, Summary, Silver baton. Public-access television in the United States is a form of Citizen media, similar to Canada's community channels Australia's community television Lord of the Universe is a 1974 Documentary film about Prem Rawat (at the time known as Guru Maharaj Ji at an event in November 1973 at the Houston Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast Journalism. The Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast Journalism. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and his American following at a three day spiritual festival. Producer: David Loxton. , Jurors' Comments, TVTV and WNET/13's "The Lord of the Universe", a 60-minute report on Guru Maharaj Ji, was, according to the jurors, hectic, hilarious and not a little disquieting. With a heavier and less sure hand, the subject would have been squashed beneath the reporters’ irony or contempt. As it was, cult religion was handed to us, live and quivering, to make of it what we would. , Original Air Date: 2/24/1974 Total Running Time: 01:00:00, Archive Number: 1973/74. 9. TV - ^ Lord of the Universe, Video Data Bank, retrieved 1/18/07.
- ^ Electronic Arts Intermix, "The Lord of the Universe", 1974, TVTV, retrieved 1/18/06.
Awarded the Alfred I. du Pont/Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism, The Lord of the Universe is a forceful expose on the sixteen-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and the national gathering of his followers at the Houston Astrodome -- Millennium 73, billed as the "most significant event in the history of humanity. "
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