CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Master 11515 Tape 1 CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - Documentary on the history of Presidental Campaingns and the part that the media plays in American politics.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE PBS "Election 88" title/WETA credit/funding credits/"Campaign" title.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Opening sequence shows past presidents EISENHOWER, NIXON, KENNEDY, walking the campaign trail with cartoon television sets superimposed so their faces appear through the "screens" and a shot of a suburban family watching Howdy Doody. The montage continues, humorously, including a shot of MICHAEL DUKAKIS throwing a baseball which here has a small TV set superimposed over it, the TV flies out of frame, and in the next shot flies into frame to bean Sen. Paul Simon during a press conference. Reagan is shown with his face on the "screen" in black and white.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Title "The Prime Time President".
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Host BILL MOYERS, introduces program, the impact of TELEVISION on CAMPAIGNING and politics and it's impact on Democracy. Guest Harold Evans, British Journalist, says that the British are fascinated by the Television-obsession of Americans. He made a documentary film to raise questions about Television Democracy.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Shots in Campaign headquarters of "Jack Tanner", fictitious candidate in a TV show produced by "Doonesbury" creator GARY TRUDEAU. Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88", depicting a frantic campaign office. Shot of project director ROBERT ALTMAN behind camera and directing actors.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" In the scene, a sniveling campaign director gets apoplectically mad and chucks a bottle at a caricature of DUKAKIS on the wall of "Jack Tanner" headquarters, then opens up a bottle of Diet Coke, which, through his spastic activity, foams all over the place and ruins his shirt. Shot from production as "Jack Tanner" enters the party convention floor.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88". Shot of actor Michael Murphy ("Jack Tanner"), who says that the line between show business and politics are not much different, as he's seen in researching the part.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" Shot of "Jack Tanner" and Bruce Babbitt walking by Reflecting Pool in production. Babbitt is playing himself as a Tanner advisor in the production.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88". C/S of BABBITT, who says that he decided being in the production wouldn't hurt his own political legitimacy as long as he "played himself" in the show.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" Shot of BABBITT advising "Tanner" on camera. It is interesting how BABBITT in the course of "playing himself" appears transparently as a hack actor.