The Japanese I-400 Class Submarine was an underwater aircraft carrier — a top-secret weapon so potent that it very nearly changed the course of the war. JAPANESE SUPER SUB answers many questions that still surround this unusual weapon: How did the Japanese create this technological marvel? How dangerous was it? Could it really have changed [...]
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This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]
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This nice article described a little about our production of Forgotten War. The photographer was an intern how worked with us for several months.
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After a great couple weeks of broadcast around the US on dozens of PBS affiliates, Small Town, Big Dreams: The Lake Placid Olympic Story is getting a national run on PBS World, the sub-channel of more than 50 PBS affiliates. It will air this Saturday night, March 27 at 7 PM eastern for anyone with [...]
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A new Collector’s Edition DVD of Castle in Every Heart: The Arto Monaco Story is offered tomorrow night (Dec 4th) at 8:00 PM on a special broadcast featuring Producer Derek Muirden and regional guests recalling the Land of Makebelieve. The Program re-airs Saturday (Dec 5th) at 9:00 PM, Sunday (Dec 6th) at 4:00 PM and [...]
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Don’t miss the PBS event of the fall! Mountain Lake PBS’s animated documentary – Dead Reckoning in Plattsburgh For a downloadable poster click here.
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Forgotten War (see ealier post) will be uplinked to the PBS network on November 29th in both Standard and High Definition. American Public Television reports that 205 stations (96 licensees) voted YES for coverage that equals 68% of the nation’s TV markets! The list includes three of the biggest PBS stations around: WNET13, WGBH – Boston, and [...]
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The title of this post is a pun on a new documentary that Mountain Lake PBS is presenting to PBS and American Public Television. Small Town, Big Dreams: The Lake Placid Olympic Story is a great program that arrives just in time for the Winter Games in Vancouver, BC. It covers both the 1932 and [...]
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The one hour doc on the French & Indian War we just finished at Mountain Lake PBS has been offered to the PBS system by American Public Television one of the three major distributors to the PBS system (who, by the way, have the best guide to the tech side of producing for PBS that [...]
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