Cartoons Sunday!

Plus for Thanksgiving week, the unseen "Last Waltz" and Bruce Cockburn's "Indian Wars." And my new film.....

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books including “The Tunnels” “Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady” and “The Campaign of the Century” and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” (up for an Emmy). You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free.

I’ve noted previously that until recently few knew that Marty S., in filming the “Last Waltz” (over Thanksgiving) with color images we are so familiar with, also had a camera team shooting the whole thing in B&W from the floor. You can find it at YouTube, I think, and it includes many songs not in the final classic cut. Here is how the song that would open the film (but actually came last in real life), “Don’t Do It,” went off in its full version, not the reduced version in the movie. Yes, I was invited to the show but did not feel like flying out from NYC to SF for it….

The always under-rated Bruce Cockburn with one of his many “political” songs, “Indian Wars.”

Oh, I finished my fourth and latest documentary film in the past four years (the previous three all were aired via PBS, two got Emmy nods, one earned multiple awards etc.). Here is the very temporary and not pro poster we put together so we had something for festival entries. If you have special interest in this film, drop me a line…

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