From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9807 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, October 2 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9807 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BONUS: $100 APPLE Gift Card Opportunity ["Apple Shopper Feedback" Subject: BONUS: $100 APPLE Gift Card Opportunity BONUS: $100 APPLE Gift Card Opportunity http://myboat.rest/1_I9JoWh1vt2n-ghSarRNbCFJhl7Xm0AYN830pL-AAZgd1BLyg http://myboat.rest/Q94uxzsnp3atGaP5ByBLi5ybK2kbg229LFtvX1hCu1NGzb9O5w st broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1964, the Granada Television documentary Seven Up! broadcast interviews with a dozen ordinary 7-year-olds from a broad cross-section of society and inquired about their reactions to everyday life. Every seven years, the filmmaker created a new film documenting the lives of the same individuals during the intervening period. Titled the Up Series, episodes included "7 Plus Seven", "21 Up", etc.; it is still ongoing. The program was structured as a series of interviews with no element of the plot. By virtue of the attention paid to the participants, it effectively turned ordinary people into a type of celebrity, especially after they became adults. The series The American Sportsman, which ran from 1965 to 1986 on ABC in the United States, would typically feature one or more celebrities, and sometimes their family members, being accompanied by a camera crew on an outdoor adventure, such as hunting, fishing, hiking, scuba diving, rock climbing, wildlife photography, horseback riding, race car driving, and the like, with most of the resulting action and dialogue being unscripted, except for the narration. In the 1966 Direct Cinema film Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol filmed various acquaintances with no direction given. The Radio Times Guide to Film 2007 said that the film was "to blame for reality television". The Loud family, subjects of the pioneering PBS series An American Family. During filming, the parents decided to divorce and son Lance (top left) came out as gay. The 12-part 1973 PBS series An American Family showed a nuclear family (filmed in 1971) going through a divorce; unlike many later reality shows, it was more or less documentary in purpose and style. In 1974 a counterpart program, The Family, was made in the UK, following the working-class Wilkins family of Reading. Other forerunners of modern reality television were the 1970s productions of Chuck Barris: The Dating Game, The Newlywed ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9807 **********************************************