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Specializing in documentaries
and other non-fiction film and video, Wilkman Productions,
Inc.
is an award-winning production company founded in 1971. Our full-service
facilities are located in Hollywood, California.
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Research and preliminary
production is underway for a 90 minute documentary entitled
Performing the Past: The Ramona Outdoor Play, Historical Pageantry
and American Identity. Established in 1923, the
Ramona Pageant,
performed each spring in Hemet, California, is the oldest and
largest outdoor play in the United States, part of a tradition of
American community-based dramas that began in the 19th
century. Focusing on Ramona, a drama set during the United States
conquest of California in 1840s, Performing the Past explores
the nature of history itself and how an evolving present can lead to
new more inclusive perspectives on the past, especially as it
relates to Native American and Latino contributions to the American
historical narrative. |
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Wilkman Productions is in
development for a documentary series about the history, contents
and influence of Liberty
Magazine, the lively American periodical that published the work
of many of the world's most famous writers and public figures from
the 1920s to 1950, offering a rare and entertaining window into
three amazing decades of American life and culture. |
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Our seven-part
series Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood,
which
aired on Turner Classic Movies, chronicles the history of
American motion pictures and the lives of pioneering movie makers from the 1890s to 1970. Nominated
for three Emmys, the
series was chosen as one of the top ten television programs of 2010
by the Wall St. Journal and the NY Daily News. The DVD set is now
available. Click
here for more information. |
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Jon and Nancy's book,
Los Angeles: A Pictorial Celebration, a visual survey on the
modern city, illustrated with new color photographs, is available online and in bookstores. |
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Wilkman Productions produced four thirty-minute documentaries to mark the 100th Anniversary of the
Port of Los Angeles.
This series, The Port of Los Angeles: A History, includes excerpts from more than 100 interviews with people who lived the history of
the communities of San Pedro and Wilmington and helped to create America's busiest international harbor.
It includes rare film and photographs that put this
little-known story into its proper and important place in the
history of the United States and the growth of global trade from
1542 to the present. DVD available
from
www.grandvision.org |
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Wilkman
Productions' 60-minute documentary, Chicano Rock!
The Sounds of East
Los Angeles, was produced with major production grants from Latino Public Broadcasting,
the California Council for
the Humanities and the Skirball Foundation. It aired on national PBS
and was the winner of the 2009 Best Documentary at the Rasquache Festival of the U.S. Latino Experience in Film and Art. Order a DVD from
www.shoppbs.org |
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As part
of a major symposium, hosted by the
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Media and the Public Interest
Institute at Chapman University,
Wilkman Productions produced a five-part documentary,
At Issue: Immigration, an informative examination of the most
reliable facts concerning the issue of immigration in the United
States. For further information and DVDs email: jon@wilkman.com. |
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Jon and Nancy have completed a
major illustrated history of Los Angeles. Entitled
Picturing Los Angeles,
the book contains more than 550 photographs and 70,000 words of
text and can be ordered online or purchased online or at a bookstore near you.
New paperback edition due in Fall 2011. |
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DVD's are available of the
Wilkman Productions documentary, "With Heart and Hand: The
Restoration of the Gamble House." Three years in the
making, this one-hour video explores the lives of architects Charles
and Henry Greene, as it documents the exterior restoration and
conservation of the 1908 Gamble
House, a masterpiece of American Arts and Crafts architecture.
To order yours, email: jon@wilkman.com |
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Jon and Nancy and our
St. Francis Dam
documentary are featured on
NPR's "All Things Considered."
The Wilkmans are also preparing a major book on the subject entitled
Floodpath: The Forgotten Tragedy of the St. Francis Dam
Disaster.. |
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