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A Filmmaker's Journal

Name: A Filmmaker's Journal
Author: Sumner Jules Glimcher
ISBN: 9781477619681

by Sumner Jules Glimcher

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Overview

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? As you read this EBOOK, a quick tap allows you to see excerpts from many of his two-dozen films, and view a cruise video to Alaska where he filmed a whale watching trip and his helicopter landing on a glacier.

About the Author, Sumner Jules Glimcher

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 on the Nook and download at www.bn.com