One of the most informative TV Series ever
I recently got into a discussion of music in general which triggered a memory of this long-ago TV Series.
I remember many of these shows vividly, but not all of them. Mostly I remember the feeling of anticipation, the reveling in the sheer joy of discovery, and most of all the introductory music and image collage.
Remembering the music, I rummaged in my mind for the title of "that old TV Series" -- and after a few days what surfaced was the word OMNIBUS.
But I couldn't remember the moderator, though I do remember how incredibly impressive he was.
So I googled Omnibus TV Series and came to the wikipedia page that said Alistair Cooke. It's a very short entry but reminded me why the series was so impressive. It won a lot of really hard-to-win awards.
If you are looking for a TV Series on DVD to share with your kids over dinner on Sunday night, try this series.
If you want to study exactly how to put together a...
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The EB White segment about lobstering in Maine is worth the purchase price alone; the bonus was everything else. A great interview with James Thurber and a fascinating one with Frank Lloyd Wright. Alistair Cooke, cigarette in hand, was a talented interlocutor. The video quality isn't great but will be familiar for those of us who grew up with a TV antenna and all of three channels from which to choose.
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