William VanDerKloot

Independent Filmmaker always in search of great stories.

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Ted Turner left a huge imprint on Atlanta in media, sports, and business. However one of his very important contributions to our city has not received the acclaim it deserves - building Atlanta’s creative community.

His networks’ rapid growth required armies of creative people to produce the programs, build the brands, and guide the marketing. While the budgets were smaller than the giant media companies, there were no layers of executives needing to approve every step. Creatives were left on their own, and they built some amazing things. Many have gone on to fame and fortune elsewhere, but a good number have stayed in Atlanta and brought their creativity and independent drive to every corner of our city. Atlanta’s creative community owes a great deal to Ted Turner.

This clip is from our Peabody Award-winning program, Portrait of America: Georgia and profiles Ted during the early days when CNN was in the basement at Techwood.
We produced it for TBS in the early 1980’s.

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Piedmont Park https://t.co/XaehV8MHfN via @YouTube The Atlanta Botanical Garden celebrates its 50th anniversary. This film was made for the ABG as an homage to its home in Piedmont Park.

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The BIG Air Show https://t.co/NMRG1eVcpD via @YouTube The great Oshkosh Air Show. Where else can you see the Concorde and a 747 up close.

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The BIG Train Trip https://t.co/eKQtC62zzy via @YouTube A wondrous train trip across Canada!

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Days Of Heaven (1978 dir. Terence Malick) (Cinematography by Néstor Almendros)

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The BIG Park https://t.co/V3ZowlsFAD via @YouTube Another popular video released on YouTube

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In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) HAL’s voice (Douglas Rain) was recorded in post; an earlier voice was replaced.

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Bertrand Russell's message to Future Generations, 1959. ✍️

"And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) remains one of the most visually stunning films ever made. Every shot feels like a masterpiece carved out of the desert.

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Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) might be the most visually stunning film ever made. Shot entirely with natural light and candlelight, every frame feels like a living 18th-century painting.

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They are all great films, but I do love Phantom of the Paradise.

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4 BRIAN DE PALMA films, 1 choice. Which is your favourite?

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When they say nobody moves a camera like Spielberg, they’re absolutely right.

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'Barry Lyndon' (1975

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Kubrick didn’t do coincidences.

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Which final image from a movie will stay with you forever?

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Casablanca (1942 dir. Michael Curtiz) (Cinematography by Arthur Edeson)

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On this day in 1945, at only 16 years of age, Stanley Kubrick's first, and possibly most iconic, photograph for Look magazine was published after the head of the photographic department purchased it without hesitation for $25 on the spot.

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I saw 2001 in Cinerama in 1968 and it inspired me to work in the film business. A masterpiece if there ever was one.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 dir. Stanley Kubrick) (Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth)

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Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, French citizens take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones of fallen soldiers to create a golden shine. They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

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If I was not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

- A. Einstein