Ron Bacon and The Kite Song
Original Airdates: Aug. 20-22, 2020
TVC 551.2: A return appearance by Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon, a true pioneer of network TV production who wore many hats throughout his thirty-five-year career, which spanned more than 12,500 broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming imaginable. Topics this segment include how Ron’s background in filming documentaries for Dick Clark Productions served him well when he made The Kite Song, a thirty-minute dramatic short that Ron wrote, produced, filmed, and directed in 1967. Though made on a shoestring budget, the film was considered avant-garde at the time Ron originally made it, and still holds up today. You can enjoy The Kite Song for free at RonBacon.net.
Ron Bacon and the 1984 Summer Olympics
Original Airdates: Aug. 20-22, 2020
TVC 551.3: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon takes Ed behind the scenes of ABC’s coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics, including the many ways in which the production of those Games set the standard for Olympic broadcasts since. Ron won his Emmy for his work on the 1984 Games.
Ron Bacon, Vanessa Redgrave, and the 1978 Oscars
Original Airdates: Aug. 20-22, 2020
TVC 551.4: Television pioneer Ron Bacon talks to Ed about how ABC came to acquire the rights to the Academy Awards in 1960 (and why that was such a coup for the network at the time); his various responsibilities on a typical Oscarcast (which included editing the three-hour broadcast down to fifty-five minutes, for telecast the next day overseas); and how Vanessa Redgrave’s controversial acceptance speech during the 1978 Oscars caused trouble for Ron after he had completed editing the overseas telecast. You can enjoy Ron’s thirty-minute dramatic short, The Kite Song, for free at RonBacon.net.
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