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Show IV B AUG. 18,1978 i B1 SBSB I Evening 0O0GD ZOOM 6:00 after him. Guest star: Rob Reiner. (R; 60 mins NEWS 00 CANDID CAMERA O CROSS WITS 6:30 0BYZANTIUMEVENING Glenn Ford, 00 (D 0 black sheep unwittingly save First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's airplane from enemy attack, they are proclaimed heroes and given a new assignment. (R; 60 mins.) N NFL TBALL Minnesota Vikings vs Miami Dolphins (2hrs.,45 mins.) 0 ADTHE NEW VENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN International peace talks are jeopar- dized when a young begins clairvoyant manipulating the minds of several diplomats. (R; 60 mins.) OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: Actor Hugh O'Brien. high-ranki- Q SUMMER BYU MMENCEMENT William former Simon, U.S. of the Secretary 7:30 Treasury and the first Energy Czar will be the speaker at the Marriott at Center on campus Brigham Young University. (90 mins.) MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 ROCKFORD FILES Q 0Rockford is forced to a protect quarterback in a blackmail scheme that brings the mob and federal agents small-tim- e 10:30 Erin Gray. Terrorists take over a movie screening CONCENTRATION BEST OF 4-- h MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT BLACK 7:00 SHEEP After the SQUADRON event and the producer ties it to recent airplane hijackings and the loss of three nuclear weapons. (Pt. II; 2 hrs.) WASHINGTON O IN REVIEW 8:30 WALL STREET WEEK Profits Host: Louis Rukeyser. Guest: C. Frazzano. 9:00 QUINCY When a client drowns at a health spa, Quincy finds his efforts hampered by a slick atto torney attempting prevent adverse publicity from the affecting business. (R; 60 mins.) DRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL The top drum and bugle corps finalists from the U.S. and Canada compete for the championship at Denvers Mile High Stadium. (4 hrs.) EVENING AT POPS CD Claude Kipnis and his mime company of seven enact the amusing daydreams of musicians to the Mozart favorite Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.' Kipnis also performs a solo number called The Party. (60 mins.) 9:45 O NEWS Joseph 0 0 10:00 00 NEWS MACNEIL (D REPORT 10:15 LEHRER O BARETTA By John Photography Doe The death of a retired policeman leads Baretta into an investigating THE TONIGHT SHOW DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Neil Simon, playwright. 0 Wood' WEEK 0Quenching 0O) 10:40 GUNSMOKE 11:00 CD HOW TO... Work With 11:25 O MOVIE FICTION) -- (SCIENCE 1854 Dowling. A machine-mad-e brain is utilized to sabotage a missile station. (80 mins.) 11:40 MOVIE -- DRAMA)V4 The Italian Job" 1969 0 Michael Noel Caine, Coward. A prison based mastermind a plots $4,000,000 gold robbery in Italy. (80 mins.) 0 THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 12:45 LUCY SHOW 1:00 NEWS O O CONSULT NETWORK 0 : 'f:t (gE;' fi? 411 ii 49 Vi (r THE ANDERSON LUMBER ANSWER MAN LET HIM HELP YOU! FOR LAST MINUTE LISTINGS OUR CHANGES AND FOR EXACT AlR TIME Producer girds for Live from Wolf Trap by Mary Aladj what in your background prepares you for producing five live TV programs from Wolf Trap in one week?" A: "Well, I've been a masochist, you see, for a lot of years, and accepting Q: "Mr. this was While Hutkoff, just another recent-- " masochism may not be essential, it would probably help, when your job is to produce in a week national five live television broadcasts of five completely different concerts, ranging from two folksingers with banjo and guitar to the National Symphony Orchestra cele- ' co-ho- Gog Richard Egan, Constance 12:00 DRUM CORPS CHAMPIONSHIP The top twelve drum and bugle corps finalists from the United States and Canada will compete for the title of champion at the seventh annual 'Drum Corps International Championship. The 1978 championship finals, produced by WGBHBoston, will be seen live from the majestic Mile High Stadium in Denver Friday, Aug. 18, on PBS. DCI colorman, drill designer and marching and maneuvering instructhe tor Peter Emmons will finals and provide background on the competition and the structure of the drum corps. Former champions including The Kingsmen from Anaheim, Calif., the Santa Clara Vanguards, the Madison Scouts, the 27th Lancers from Revere, Mass., and last year's titleholder the Blue DeVils from Concord, Calif., return to compete against the finest marching musical units in the nation. Corps members ranging from 12 to 21 years of age turn the competition into a four-hospectacle of color and rhythm. unholy alliance between a respected judge and a mobster. (R) IN v M"" Bernstein's Leonard brating birthday. All this in an open-ai- r theater during August (a month noted for thunderstorms) before a live audience (which must not be disturbed by cameras). Hal Hutkoff is sure the job can be done but it will take some pretty careful planning and a good many working days before opening which, at the time he was night interviewed, was exactly one month in the future. Hutkoff, of public television station D.C., is the WETAWashington, producer for LIVE FROM WOLF TRAP, an unprecedented series of programs WETA will produce for national transmission over PBS between Saturday, Aug. 19 and Friday, Aug. 25. Opening with Sarah Vaughan and the National in an Symphony Orchestra program Aug. 19, the series will include Tex Beneke and his orchestra (Mon., Aug. 21), Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie (Tues., Aug. 22), Chuck Mangione and his ensemble (Thurs., Aug. 24) and Leonard Bernstein's 60th birthday celebration (Aug. 25), with Mstislav Rostropovich, the National Symphony Orchestra and a group of Bernstein's friends, among them Aaron Copland, Lauren Bacall, Yehudi Menuhin and Lillian Heilman. While the project does not appear to faze Hutkoff, he does show respect for its size and complexity. But first why do it at all? Wolf Trap programs have been taped for delayed broadcast for several years and they have been very popular. Few programs are broadcast live these days except for sporting events, some news programs, congressional hearings and Presidential press conferences. What is to be gained by doing these concerts live? The answer, according to Hutkoff, boils down to what he calls "the energy of the moment." "There's a special feeling to a performance as its happening, as you see it, as it's performed. There's no editing involved, there's no 'special effects, The energy there's no time to of the moment is felt by everybody who watches it. Everybody feels a part of that. While he acknowledges the artistic value of television editing, in which decisions made at leisure in a tapeediting room shape a program into a work of art, "this is a different thing," Hutkoff says. "This will be reportage, more or less. We will try to represent what's happening as realistically as we can under the circumstances." Although as many as eight cameras will be in use at one time, "everything will be live. Every cut" he snaps his will be a live cut. fingers sharply material may be used during intermission but not during the performance. Logistically, Hutkoff anticipates that the Bernstein birthday tribute will be the most difficult of the programs because of all the people involved. But in another way, a simple program like Seeger and Guthrie "because it's simple, it's complicated to do." The folksingers' relaxed style, he says, means that they may not make decisions about what songs to play until a few minutes before the program starts. "That's the way they work. They decide at the last minute how they feel, what they want for that particular audience, that particular night which is wonderful for the audience. But we're going to have to be quick on our feet to capture it." For the two National Symphony concerts, on the other hand, programs are worked out in detail weeks in advance. In this case the problem is to become thoroughly familiar with the score, so that during the performance a scorereader, back behind the theater in the TV truck, can be "counting and counting and then say Pre-tape- d in four, the violins come in. "The director's hearing that with his spare ear," Hutkoff says, because the other two ears are listening to whats coming out of the speakers. Comparing the production of these broadcasts to other live programs such as the Watergate hearings, Hutkoff says that the basic difference is philosophical. Your responsibility if you're covering a hearing.. .you're not giving your own opinion. You're trying to present facts as they exist. You don't want to show a person from an angle that shows them as being one thing or another. There's such a thing as a subjective camera. You shoot somebody from underneath and they seem more powerful than they may be. You shoot somebody from above, and they seem less powerful, vulnerable. So you want to shoot them straight on, in a hearing. In this kind of thing, what you want to do is to try to match your pictures with the feeling that's happening. So that if someone is singing a very intimate song, you want to get in a little closer. If it's a floating song you may want to do some dissolves with the camera. If it's a hard, tough song you may want to shoot wide, shoot cuts, don't dissolve." What will they do if there's a thunderstorm? Hutkoff first quotes a pungent answer his company commander in the Army used to have for such questions, then ticks off a reassuring list of contingency plans for interruptions ranging from a light shower to a "huge thunderstorm," power outages and other acts of God. All of them involve impressive coordination with PBS and the stations around the country. He seems to take comfort from the thought that network sports programs face these problems all the time. About 40 people will be involved each night in televising the concerts. Hutkoff estimates. Except in the case of the symphony concerts, more people will be working behind the stage than on it. ("In the Army they used to say that it took 1 1 people to put one soldier in combat.") Hutkoff plans to take a vacation in September. He says he will either go away and rest or go away and hide. |