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Robert Bendick | |
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| Born | February 8, 1917 |
| Died | June 22, 2008 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Television producer |
Robert Bendick (February 8, 1917 - June 22, 2008) was an American cameraman turned television producer, best known as the producer of Today between the years of 1953-1955, and 1958-1960.
Robert Bendick attended New York University, and the C.H. White school of Photography. Learning to use a camera, Bendick worked for National Geographic and Time magazines.
Eventually hired onto CBS in 1941 and one of the original three cameramen. Ultimately working his way up to producer, he produced Today, and other major televised shows for both NBC and CBS during what is coined the golden years of television.
One of Bendick's most famous productions come from a series called Wide Wide World , a documentary series that aired on NBC Sunday afternoons at 4 pm. Wide Wide World was a documentary series that aired for one hour, and was filmed in different parts of the world. This was the only show of its kind at the time. His production consisted of "Sunday Driver," "Land of Plenty," "and "Two Ways to Winter."
Bendick's works also consist of the produced coverage for both film and television of the 1962 America's Cup sailing races, opening night at the New York World's Fair (1962), The 17th annual Emmy Awards show (1965), and the 1964 Republican Convention.
John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. He was known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry. After World War I, he achieved fame as a playwright and became closely associated with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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Gertrude Bass Warner was an American twentieth-century art collector, with particular interests in Asian art, religious artifacts, daily-life textiles, ceramics, paintings, and photographs. She lived, traveled, and collected art in East Asia from 1904 to 1938. In 1922 she became the curator for life and first director of the University of Oregon Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, helping to design the historic building with famed architect Ellis F. Lawrence. She had the museum built to house the collection of more than 3,700 works of art, the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, named after her late husband, Murray Warner. She donated the collection to the university in 1933. She traveled throughout China, Japan, Korea, and Russia purchasing works of art and artifacts, taking photographs, and writing extensive field notes. She visited thousands of cultural sites and studied Shinto, Buddhism, and Chinese and Japanese etiquette, and the human experience, and became an innovator in the promotion of Asian art and culture appreciation, Asian studies, and multiculturalism. She is considered a female pioneer of museum studies.
"University of Oregon Archives." Guide to Robert Bendicks Papers. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 July 2012. <nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv74908>.
Hilmes, Michele. The television history book. London: British Film Institute, 2003. Print.
Bendick, Jeanne, and Robert Bendick. Television works like this. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. Print
Kovarik, Bill. Revolutions in communication: media history from Gutenberg to the digital age. New York: Continuum, 2011. Print.
Bendick, Jeanne, and Robert Bendick. Making the movies,. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945. Print.
Americas Cup Races. Production materials, Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
Wide Wide World. “Sunday Driver”. Production materials, Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
Wide Wide World. “Sunday Driver”. Production Materials Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
“Today in Rome.” Production Materials, Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
Wide Wide World, “Land of Plenty”. Production Materials, Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
17th annual emmy awards, Robert Bendick Papers, Ax 505, Box 1 Special Collections and University of Oregon Archives, Uo Libraries
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