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15761. Interview with Valerie Troutt, Oakland, California (05:59)

Date:
2020-08-31
Main contributors:
Valerie Troutt
Summary:
Valerie Troutt (Oakland, California) Composer Valerie Troutt sings soulful, conscious originals inspired by her relationships with family, community, and hope for a brighter tomorrow. Bay Area-born and bred, jazz and gospel trained, and internationally respected, Valerie Troutt is a musical collagist, borrowing from ancestral centuries of sound, channeling spirits, and delivering the stories of our love, loss, and lives. There’s a light in this unapologetically unconventional artist/teacher/activist for whom art and activism are intertwined. Within this spiritual and social justice-driven performer is a lifelong hunger for craft, connection, and cultural narratives and an indefatigable thirst to serve as an agape griot to a waiting and hurting people. The Sound of Peace, her long-awaited, full-length debut comes after a critically acclaimed EP and several wizening years culminating in Valerie Troutt’s acceptance of her own original artistic difference in a world of commercial carbon copies. Interviewed by Raquel Paraíso, 08/31/2020.

15762. Valient "San Francisco" (02:04)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Valient
Summary:
The Valient is shown as being the preferred car of San Franciscans because of its ability to drive up steep inclines, navigate through tight curves and its low cost.

15763. Van Heusen "Car Wash" (01:02)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen men's shirts in which a man walks through a car wash wearing the product to demonstrate its "wash and wear" capabilities. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

15764. Van Heusen "Ocean" (01:01)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen apparel in which a man walks out of the ocean on his way to an office building modeling the brand's line of men's shirts with "wash and ready" technology. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

15765. Van Heusen "Women's Eye" (01:02)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen's men's shirts in which a woman describes why she likes her husband wearing the 417-style shirt. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

15766. Van Heusen Century Shirts "Crumpled Shirt – Bert Parks" (01:00)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Van Heusen
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen collared shirts in which actor/singer Bert Parks wears the product and addresses the camera about its wrinkle-free qualities. The screen occasionally becomes wrinkled and crumpled up as he speaks. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

15767. Van Heusen Shirt "Beach" (01:00)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen Century Vantalux shirts in which a narrator describes the product's permanent wash and wear design. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

15768. Van Heusen Shirts "Car Wash" (01:01)

Date:
1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen Shirts
Summary:
In order to prove that Van Heusen shirts hold up in the wash, a man washes his Van Heusen shirt by going through a car wash.

15769. Van Heusen Shirts "Car Wash" (01:01)

Date:
1964
Main contributors:
Van Heusen Shirts
Summary:
An advertisement for Van Heusen "Wash n' Wear" shirts with "Vanalux" narrated by a man. The scene depicts a man named George walking through a car wash with the shirt on and then putting the rest of his suit on and catching a bus. The scene ends with a montage of men wearing Van Heusen shirts with music and ends with a close-up of the logo.

15771. Craig W. Van Sickle, BA'79 (02:51)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Van Sickle, Craig W.
Summary:
In a career spanning four decades, Craig Van Sickle has written, produced and directed more than 200 hours of prime-time television, including scripts for “Murder, She Wrote,” “NCIS,” “24” and George Lucas’s “The Clone Wars.” Van Sickle graduated from IU in 1979 with a degree in telecommunications and soon moved to Los Angeles, where he eventually met up with his writing partner of 30-plus years, Steve Mitchell. In 1985, after nearly six years in Hollywood, Van Sickle sold his first script to “The Love Boat.” Two years later, he landed his first staff writing job at the “Murder She Wrote” spinoff “The Law & Harry McGraw.” In the years following, Van Sickle moved up the ranks from story editor to executive producer/showrunner under the guidance of mentors Peter S. Fischer (“Murder, She Wrote”), Kenneth Johnson (“Alien Nation”) and the late Stephen J. Cannell (“Rockford Files,” “Wiseguy”) as he continued writing scripts for all three TV giants. In 1996, Van Sickle achieved his lifelong dream when his original series, “The Pretender,” was picked up by NBC. “That was my big leap,” Van Sickle recalled. “Ever since fifth grade when I decided to become a writer, my career goal was to get my own series on television.” “The Pretender,” written and created by Van Sickle and Mitchell, ran for four seasons and launched two feature-length films. They recently published two novels set in the “Pretender” universe: “Rebirth” and “Saving Luke.” Since “The Pretender,” Van Sickle created the series “She Spies,” became showrunner for NBC’s “Medical Investigations” in 2005 and wrote about 30 television pilot scripts. In 2008, Van Sickle saw another dream project come to life when he wrote and produced his reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” titled, “Tin Man,” which aired on The SyFy Channel. To this day, “Tin Man” remains the network’s highest-rated mini-series of all time and garnered nine Emmy nominations, winning multiple awards that year. In addition to his mentors, Van Sickle credits his family, who he said made it all worthwhile. “My wife Wendy was there for me from the very beginning, before success. Along with our two great children, Aridae and Wills, family love kept me very grounded,” he said. In 2017, Van Sickle launched scripTVisions.com, a script mentoring site that helps unproduced writers improve their scripts and launch their professional careers in Hollywood. Each year, he selects one protégé’s work to submit to his agents and take out into the marketplace to get the show on the air. “Ninety percent of my clients are pro bono,” he said. “In an era where novice writers are being taken advantage of by fly-by-night script services, I just felt they deserved legitimate feedback from a professional – the kind of notes that will truly help them break into the TV business.” Since 1985, Van Sickle has been an active member of the Writers Guild of America West, for which he has participated in numerous panels and workshops throughout the years. He is working on a new series called “Veil” for Starling Entertainment, which he hopes will premiere next year.