Post-Newsweek Productions
{{Short description|Documentary film producer}}
Post-Newsweek Productions was a film production company in the United States that made documentary films about aspects of American history. It produced various documentary films about aspects of American history. Alan Perris served as its president.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1982/07/03/post-combines-video-units-in-new-division/e26e50e6-6271-4b76-855b-ea675deb863b/ |title=Post Combines Video Units in New Division |date=1982-07-03 |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}{{Cite web|url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/alan-perris|title=Alan Perris|date=October 23, 2017|website=Television Academy Interviews}} In 1982 it was consolidated with Newsweek Video into Post-Newsweek Video.{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/03/The-Washington-Post-Co-is-forming-a-new-division/7540394516800/|title=The Washington Post Co. is forming a new division,...|website=UPI}} Narrators for the films include actors William Shatner, Gloria Swanson, Ossie Davis, and Theodore Bikel.
Writer and producer Ray Hubbard worked on several of the films. He created the "American Documents" series in 1976, the bicentennial year of the United States, and made 13 hour-long films about America's cultural history. The programs were syndicated nationally.{{Cite news |title=Ray Hubbard, 75 |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/12/28/ray-hubbard-75/ce42a9dc-6243-42e0-bb5b-3fd9bc11c804/ |access-date=2023-10-27 |issn=0190-8286}} Narrators for the films include William Shatner, Gloria Swanson, Ossie Davis, and Theodore Bikel.
History
The Washington Post got into television broadcasting by acquiring a television station. Post Stations Inc. became Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. after the acquisition of Newsweek magazine in 1961.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
Films
The "American Documents" series includes the films Black Shadows on a Silver Screen,{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VvLyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22american+documents%22+post-newsweek+1976 | title=MAWA Review: Quarterly Publication of the Middle Atlantic Writers Association | year=1994 }} The Legendary West, A Moment in Time, Just Around the Corner, and Working for the Lord.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1MhAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22american+documents%22+post-newsweek+1976&pg=RA2-PA223 | title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series | year=1978 }} In 1986, Republic Pictures issued some of the "American Documents" films.
The 1973 documentary The Age of Ballyhoo was directed by David Shepard{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e935f72|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716191659/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e935f72|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 16, 2017|title=The Age of ballyhoo-the American 20's on Film (1973)|website=BFI}} and narrated by Gloria Swanson. It examines American culture during the 1920s and was marketed as "The Roaring Twenties as seen by the people who lived it!". It was released on DVD accompanying Cecil B. DeMille's 1926 film The Clinging Vine starring Leatrice Joy.
The documentary The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War includes stills and clips from old movies and footage of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the White House with sheep outside it.{{cn|date=September 2023}} It is dedicated to Erich von Stroheim. The film was researched and compiled by John D. Abel, Robert C. Allen, Peter DuFour, and Larry Ward. It was released as a Republic Pictures Home Video.
In 1981 the production company planned to videotape Abbey Theater of Dublin productions for U.S. audiences.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7s1NAMoDTaUC&dq=%22post-newsweek+productions%22&pg=PA200|title=Status of Competition and Deregulation in the Telecommunications Industry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, May 20, 27, and 28, 1981|first=United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and|last=Finance|date=August 16, 1981|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}
Filmography
- The Age of Ballyhoo (1973) by David Shepard, a documentary about the 1920s with Hollywood film clips and newsreel footage{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gs7En6sPLLIC&dq=the+age+of+ballyhoo+1973&pg=PA142 | title=Catalog of Educational Captioned Films/Videos for the Deaf | year=1993 | publisher=Captioning and Adaptation Branch, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=to_AXymTgrQC&q=the+age+of+ballyhoo+1973 | isbn=9780673294302 | title=American Studies Album: Literature, Historical Documents, and Visual Art | year=1995 | publisher=ScottForesman }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hamul59JMgsC&q=the+age+of+ballyhoo+1973 | title=Feature Films: Film and Video Resources for Rental and Purchase | year=1983 | publisher=University of Illinois Film Center }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qugaAQAAMAAJ&q=the+age+of+ballyhoo+1973 | title=Catalog of Visual Media | year=1995 | publisher=The Service }}
- Immigrants - We all came to America (1974){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qugaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22american+documents%22+post-newsweek+1976|title=Catalog of Visual Media|first=Suburban Library System (Burr Ridge, Ill ) Audio Visual|last=Service|date=March 23, 1995|publisher=The Service|via=Google Books}} by Ray Hubbard. Theodore Bikel narrates.https://web.opendrive.com/api/v1/download/file.json/Ml8xNDYwMTc1NDNf?temp_key=%08%04%C0%2C%E1%89%F3%CA%5D&inline=1 page 57
- The Legendary West : how movie makers and pulp magazines glamorized the Old West (1975)
- The Building of the Capitol (1975){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHvpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22american+documents%22+post-newsweek+1976|title=Bertha Landers Film Reviews|date=March 23, 1979|publisher=Landers Associates.|via=Google Books}}
- A Moment in Time (1976){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AHzpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22american+documents%22+post-newsweek+1976 | title=Landers Film Reviews | year=1983 }}
- Patent Pending{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=siQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22how+we+got+the+vote%22+emmy+award&pg=PT36 | title=Billboard | date=12 July 1986 }} (1975) William Shatner narrates{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oO0qAQAAMAAJ&q=%22patent+pending%22+post+newsweek+film | title=Science Books & Films | year=1975 }}
- How we got the vote : the exciting story of the struggle for female equality{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14176857|title=How we got the vote : the exciting story of the struggle for female equality {{pipe}} WorldCat.org|oclc=14176857 }} Nancy Gager wrote the script and Jean Stapleton narrated. It won an Emmy Award.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/02/04/nancy-gager-author-and-editor-dies/6c47d097-ce2f-49e2-adc7-6cce2096f5f2/ The film features photographs, cartoons, footage of suffragists in action and interviews with surviving suffragists including Alice Paul and Mabel Vernon.{{Cite web|url=https://catt.org/resources/|title=Resources}}https://www.powherny.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/100th-Anniversary-of-Womens-Suffrage-in-NYS-handout.pdf
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975) narrated by Ossie Davis
- Young Lives (1981), a five episode pilot for a series on the lives and challenges faced by teenagers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/482775/young-lives|title=Young Lives|website=Turner Classic Movies}}https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/81-OCR/1981-02-09-BC-OCR-Page-0008.pdf
- The Moving picture boys in the Great War (1986),{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b943c37a6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816031858/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b943c37a6|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 16, 2022|title=Post-Newsweek Productions|website=BFI}} documentary about American attitudes on isolationism
- Inaugural souvenir : the drama and comedy of presidential elections (1986){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJRPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Inaugural+souvenir%22+:+the+drama+and+comedy+of+presidential+elections|title=A Catalog of 16mm Films, 1/2 Inch Video Cassettes and Other Media|first=State Library of Iowa Audio-visual|last=Section|date=November 14, 1986|publisher=The Library|via=Google Books}}
- Brought to You By... Santa (1993){{cite web | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/456364/brought-to-you-bysanta#overview | title=Brought to You By...Santa }}