32. Gary E. Donatelli, BA'74 (03:00)

Date:
2017
Main contributors:
Donatelli, Gary E.
Summary:
Gary Donatelli is an Emmy award-winning television and film producer/director, best known for the 18 years he spent directing network dramas. Donatelli attended Indiana University on a combined football and wrestling scholarship. He graduated in 1974 with a degree in radio and television and turned his experiences in the classroom and on the field into a career as a camera operator for ABC’s Wide World of Sports. Donatelli filmed events ranging from the Olympics, to the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500, to the World Series and Monday Night Football, winning four Emmys for his camerawork. He also authored The ABC Monday Night Football Cookbook & Restaurant Guide. While working for ABC, he started his own company, Hav Cam Inc. The company produced corporate and music videos, working with artists such as James Brown, Miles Davis and Neil Young along with bands including Boston, Spyro Gyra, and KC and the Sunshine Band. Donatelli’s tenure at ABC also led him to major news events. He recorded presidential inaugurations and NASA space shuttle launches, and he filmed for ABC Eyewitness News. Over the years, Donatelli climbed the ranks at ABC, moving from cameraman to technical director and then, in 1993, director. That year, he entered the world of daytime dramas, directing the series Loving. He moved to NBC to direct Another World for four years before returning to ABC to direct One Life to Live from 1998-2011. During those 13 years, the directing team won four Emmys and garnered seven nominations for “Best Directing Team in Daytime Drama.” Combined with guest slots at The Bold and The Beautiful and General Hospital, his career totals more than 1,000 episodes of daytime drama. For more than a decade, Donatelli also directed the annual Variety Children’s Telethon, a five-hour live entertainment broadcast with “Cousin Brucie” Morrow that raised more than $20 million a year for children’s charities. He began documentary work in 2001, producing and directing the series Lean on Me, a post-9/11 documentary series for the Fire Department of New York’s Counseling Services Unit. Now, he’s producing and directing Clearing Larry Floyd, a documentary about a Mississippi man who was brutally beaten by corrections officers during an escape attempt after having served time for what he maintains was a racially charged wrongful murder conviction. Most recently, Donatelli returned to his football roots and produced the film 23 Blast, the true story of a blind high school football player. The film is available on Netflix and won the Audience Choice Award at Indiana’s Heartland Film Festival. As a member of the Fort Lee Film Commission in New Jersey, he lobbied for years to encourage the Directors Guild of America to honor Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first female director. In 2011, the guild posthumously awarded Blaché its Special Directorial Achievement Award. The Fort Lee Film Commission presented Donatelli with its Barrymore Award for his efforts and success in this cause. Donatelli has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has served as second vice president of the Directors Guild of America.

33. 2008 Indiana State Fair Master: Donna Jo Copeland, Spinner and Weaver (09:44)

Date:
2017-08-01
Main contributors:
Donna Jo Copeland (Master), Jon Kay(Director), Ben Schreiner (Videographer), Paul Schreiner & Rick Watson (Music), Traditional Arts Indiana
Summary:
Donna Jo Copeland has exhibited textiles for forty years at the Indiana State Fair, winning numerous awards and gaining recognition for the distinct style of her creations. At the knee of her great grandmother, she learned the skills of knitting, tatting, flat pattern work, and sewing. After purchasing a loom, she taught herself to spin and weave. Taking inspiration from the materials she produces on her farm, she creates between 20 and 25 entries every year for the fair. With her daughter and granddaughter, she is now part of three generations who continue the traditions of needlework at the State Fair.

34. Doug Bauder and Marty Siegel (1:14:40)

Date:
2017
Main contributors:
Doug Bauder, Marty Siegel, Jennifer Bass; Betsy Jose; Stephanie Sanders
Summary:
Marriage Equality Collection includes audio and video files, photographs, historical documents and ephemera representing experiences of same-sex couples married in the decade of legal marriage in the U.S. Particular focus is on the experience of couples in Indiana. This archive is growing in both content and scope.

35. Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen on Displacement and Humanitarianism in the Republic of Georgia (34:37)

Date:
2017-01-18
Main contributors:
Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Through the Gates opens season 2 with guest Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, an associate professor in IU's School of Global and International Studies. Professor Dunn discusses the experiences and lessons learned during the development of her upcoming book, "Permanently Temporary: Humanitarianism and displacement in the Republic of Georgia." She also discusses the plight of refugees in other parts of the world, as well as the current state of efforts to resettle refugees in Bloomington, Indiana.

37. Sandra Eisert, BA'73 (03:45)

Date:
2017
Main contributors:
Eisert, Sandra
Summary:
Immediately after graduating from Indiana University, Sandra Eisert began making history. Eisert earned her degree in journalism in 1973 and took a job at the nationally ranked Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, becoming the first woman newspaper picture editor. In 1974 she became the first-ever White House picture editor during the Gerald Ford administration. As Ford’s picture editor, Eisert sought to create a strong visual documentation and to restore a sense of trust in the presidency lost during the Richard Nixon administration. She helped facilitate unprecedented press access to Ford, making possible a fully balanced view of the unelected president. Eisert would later return to the White House and is the only editor to have served on staff as picture editor for three U.S. presidents: Ford, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. After the Ford presidency, Eisert became the first female picture editor of The Washington Post, where she pushed the paper to send photographers to cover national stories for the first time. Her team covered stories like a devastating drought in the Midwest, the Jonestown massacre and the rise of the U.S. Hispanic population. She moved West to work at the San Jose Mercury News as the newspaper’s first senior graphics editor. After a few years, she became its first design editor and established the paper’s first design desk. She helped build a strong picture editing team, which won the National Press Photographers Association Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award for photography. She also contributed to six Mercury News NPPA Overall Best Use of Pictures team awards. Eisert played a key role in the Mercury News’ 1990 staff Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake and its aftermath, designing and directing on deadline a special section about the earthquake. The section also won six other international design and editing awards. She also served as art director of the newspaper’s award-winning Sunday magazine, WEST. While in Silicon Valley, she became interested in finding new ways to serve the reader using digital opportunities. She left WEST to work for Microsoft as the first journalist and one of the original four senior editors who created MSNBC.com, the first real site for news on the Internet. As senior editor and director of graphics for the mainstream news site, she also created the site’s revolutionary design. The design made possible use of a content management system, allowing editors to respond to news instantly and create diverse special projects on the fly. Eisert served on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for 20 years, visiting universities to evaluate quality in education. She was the first woman on the accreditation council and co-authored its diversity standard, which has become one of the critical components of accreditation. Eisert is a recipient of the Joseph Costa Award, an award named for the NPPA founder that goes to a person who exhibits outstanding initiative, leadership and service in advancing the goals of the NPPA. She was the first woman to win the award, 39 years after its inception. Now, as an entrepreneur, Eisert serves as a startup CEO. She has taught at three universities, and she has served as a media consultant in roles including establishing the Department of Defense’s Public Web Program and contributing to the editing, design or strategy of 90 books, with more than 9 million copies in circulation.

40. Marriage Equality PROMO Evan Wolfson Cheng He (00:46)

Date:
2017
Main contributors:
Evan Wolfson, Cheng He, Jennifer Bass, Betsy Jose
Summary:
Following interview on their marriage, Evan and Cheng spoke on the importance of creating an archive on same-sex marriage stories.