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Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr. was born on February 2, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer, known for The Electric Company (1971), Sesame Street (1969) and The Voyage of the Mimi (1984).
- February 2, 1932
Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr. was born on 2 February 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer, known for The Electric Company (1971), Sesame Street (1969) and The Voyage of the Mimi (1984).
- Producer, Additional Crew
- February 2, 1932
- Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr.
- Research Done For 3-2-1 Contact Influenced The Topic of Voyage of The Mimi.
- The Voyage of The Mimi Had A Board of Science Advisors.
- The Voyage of The Mimi Had A Number of Challenges Unique to A Kids' Show.
- Marsh Almost Didn’T Do The Voyage of The Mimi.
- Captain Granville Was The First Person Cast For The Voyage of The Mimi.
- The Mimi in The Voyage of The Mimi Has A Strange history.
- Parts of The Voyage of The Mimi Were Run Past Real Kids.
- After Filming The Voyage of The Mimi Pilot, Two Parts Were Recast.
- Gadsden Did Her Research to Play A Scientist in The Voyage of The Mimi.
- The Voyage of The Mimi Was Shot with A Very Small Crew.
From formative research done at the Children’s Television Workshop, Gibbon knew that shows with a plot were more interesting to kids than ones without. “Even a comedy bit with a plot line was preferred over one that just had a bunch of jokes—and if it was a semi-serious story or a drama, that was the most appealing thing of all,” he said. “I was ve...
“We had consultants and an advisory board that met regularly throughout the project,” Driggs said. There were 18 total, including math consultant Magdalene Lampert, who would go on to write Building a Better Teacher; Ted Ducas, a professor at Wellesley College who taught a physics course on whales; Kristina Hooper, a cognitive scientist who later f...
Nelson was excited to book the Mimi job—and nervous. Most children's shows were filmed in studios at that time, but Mimi“would be shot at sea and on a remote island off the coast of Maine, with a cast that consisted mostly of children, and that was highly dependent on the cooperation of whales and weather, both of which featured prominently in the ...
The filmmaker had to choose between doing second unit filming on Gorillas in the Mist—which featured a group of gorillas he had filmed five years earlier with primatologist Dian Fossey—or directing Mimi. Meeting with Gibbon convinced him that Mimi was the way to go. "Mimi ultimately seemed a much more important project," he said. (Marsh later worke...
When he was looking for a boat for the series, Gibbon talked to some friends he had made while teaching at Harvard between producing The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact. His friends recommended he check out MIT professor Peter Marston’s boat, an old tuna trawler that had been converted into a sailboat. “I went up to see Peter and he was such an ...
The 72-foot boat was built in Camaret, France, in 1931, and was originally used as a cargo barge. In World War II, German soldiers used the boat to haul munitions. At some point, it was sunk in France and was basically a wreck when, in the 1960s, it was bought by a Frenchman who, with his family and two others, fixed the Mimi up with the intent of ...
Gibbon believed in testing almost everything, from potential cast members’ audition tapes to the classroom educational materials to rough cuts of the documentaries. That work was carried out by people like Bill Tally, who joined Bank Street’s Center for Children and Technology (no longer a part of Bank Street) right after he graduated from college ...
In July 1982, the production filmed a pilot episode, starring Marston as Captain Clement Tyler Granville, future Batman Ben Affleck as his grandson C.T., Edwin De Asis as scientist Ramon Rojas, Judy Pratt as graduate research assistant Sally Ruth Cochran, Mark Graham as Arthur Spencer, and MaryAnn Plunket as scientist Ann Abrams. Previously, Afflec...
Gadsden’s character was supposed to be fluent in sign language to communicate with her Deaf research assistant, so “my biggest concern when I was in New York getting ready to go was learning sign language,” she said. “So I did what I could to learn sign language and then during the shooting, Judy Pratt had an interpreter named Jo with her at all ti...
Marsh directed and shot the series on 16mm with just a few people to help: In addition to a chase boat with its own camera crew helmed by producer John Borden, on the Mimi there was an assistant cameraman, a sound man, a lighting guy, a continuity person, and a producer. Then there was the crew, with the actors sometimes helping out. “You can't fit...
Samuel Y. Gibbon, Jr. was a producer for Sesame Street in season 1. His other credits with CTW include The Electric Company (producer in season 1, executive producer in seasons 2 and 3) and creator of 3-2-1 Contact.
Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr. Birth - Feb 2, 1932 | Genres - Documentary , Music | Subgenres - Space Opera , Biographical Film , Coming-Of-Age Fiction , Treasure Hunt Film , Buddy Film
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Aug 4, 2012 · Samuel Y. Gibbon, Jr. Notable Shows: Awards: Won Primetime Emmy, 1 win & 3 nominations
