ROBERT CARL
COHEN FILMOGRAPHY
1930:
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1939:
Moved to Los Angeles, California
HIGHER
EDUCATION:
1952:
BA Art, UCLA
1954:
MA Theater Arts, Mot. Pic. Div.,UCLA THE
COLOR
OF MAN (Thesis
Film)
1956-57: Doctorate
de Universite (Incomplete) Soc. Psych. University of Paris, Sorbonne: "Analysis Of Film As A Means Of
Communication"
1960-61:
Ph.D. (Incomplete), Motion Pictures, USC
1980:
Ph.D. (Incomplete): Annenberg School of Communication, USC
"Reconciliation
Models For International Conflict Involving Direct
Broadcast Satellite Policies"
MILITARY
SERVICE:
1954:
US Army Signal Corps, Writer, Producer, Director, WFM-TV, Ft.
Monmouth, New
Jersey
1955: Cameraman,
NATO, Supreme HQ Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Paris
1956:
Special Services, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation (BPOE), Germany
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE, PRODUCTIONS, HONORS:
1954:
ADVENTURE SHOW: Researcher, Writer, "Random Genetic Drift," CBS-TV
1955-57: THE
COLOR OF MAN:
International
Educators Conference, Lycee de Sevres, France
Fifth
Annual Film Festival, Film Council of Greater Boston
One
of Year's Ten Best (Filmstrip), Scholastic Teachers Magazine
International
Animated Film Festival, Cannes, France
Karlovy
Vary Film Festival, Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Film Institute, Sixth World Youth Festival, USSR
1956-57: MISTER
WISTER THE TIME TWISTER: Writer, Designer, Les
Films Jean Image, Paris
Prix
du Qualite, France
World
Animated Cartoon Festival, National Film Theater, London
1957:
Special Correspondent, NBC-TV:
Travels
across Siberia to film China in defiance of US State Dept. travel ban
Interviews
Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar aboard Tu-104 over Mongolia
Films
reactions of Russians to launch of Sputnik
1957: INSIDE
RED CHINA (Film Lecture): US universities, civic groups, TV
1959: INSIDE
EAST GERMANY (Film Lecture):
First
American authorized to film throughout the "German Democratic Republic"
1960: INSIDE
RED CHINA (TV): Walter Reade-Sterling SPECIAL OF THE WEEK
1960: NO
MORE WAR (Documentary): Dr. Linus Pauling & Ava Helen Pauling
1961: THE
COLOR OF MAN: British Assoc. For Advancement Of Science
1962: COMMITTEE
ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES: First film by a US citizen criticizing a
US Government
committee
1963: IWO
JIMA: Writer, Editor, Assoc. Prod., pilot for "Battleline" TV series
1963: PREMIERE: Co-Writer,
Producer, Director, Cameraman & Editor
1963: INSIDE
CASTRO'S CUBA (Film Lecture): First US
citizen authorized by US
State Dept. &
Cuban Foreign Ministry
to film in Cuba after 1961
break in
diplomatic relations
1958
-1965: Public Lecturer, universities,
civic
groups & TV, USA & Canada
INSIDE
RED CHINA
INSIDE
EAST GERMANY
INSIDE
CASTRO'S CUBA
CAPITAL
CITIES OF COMMUNISM
1963: PREMIERE
(Documentary): Co-Writer, Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Hollywood
premiere of "Cleopatra"
1964:
Returns
to Cuba for additional material for National Educ. TV (NET) special
1965: THREE
FACES OF CUBA: Shown nationwide on NET stations. Cuban
exile organizations
protests; CIA pressure;
investigations by FCC
& Congress.
NET refuses
distribution
1966: THREE
CUBANS: (formerly THREE FACES OF CUBA) distributed
independently.
1965-67: MONDO
HOLLYWOOD (Feature length documentary) Includes: Julie Andrews, Paul Newman,
Sean Connery, Bridgit Bardot,
Richard Burton
& Elizabet Taylor, director Alfred
Hitchcock, LSD guru Dr.
Richard Alpert, musician Frank Zappa, Manson Gang victim hair
stylist
Jay Sebring & Manson Gang member Bobby Beausoliel, actor-politician Ronald Reagan
Midnight
screening, opening of 1967 Mannheim Film Festival.
Invited
to open 1968 Avignon Festival & Venice Film Festival Paris
worldpremiere; (canceled due to:"Interdiction
Totale," by French Ministry of Information as: "A
danger to mental health.")
1968: THE
COLOR OF MAN (Book): (Based on MA Thesis film) popular science book
explaining the genetic-environmental basis for
different skin
colors,
relationship
to health, intelligence, etc. Published by Random House
The
Horn Book's Honor List
Select
Book List of the National Council of Christians & Jews
Smithsonian
Institute Traveling Exhibit - tours USA
1968:
Commissioned
by Bantam Books, travels to Dar es Salaam to interview Robert
Franklin Williams, FBI hunted advocate of armed self defense
1971:
Although FBI & CIA files later acquired under the Freedom of
Information
Act describe MONDO HOLLYWOOD
(along with
Cohen's other films &
books) as
"pro-communist," when show at the Brno, Czechoslovakia Film
Forum, while
engaging in shoving matches
to get into six
separate
screenings, all
Communist area film buyers reject it as "Glamorizing
capitalism - too many
cars & swimming pools"
1971: French
Ministry of Culture rescinds MONDO HOLLYWOOD "InterdictionTotale"
Issued
by Ministry of Information (itself eliminated following
1968 French
civil unrest) citing "profound changes in original
version," authorizes
exhibition to "general public."
1972: THE
COLOR OF MAN: Paperback edition published by Bantam Books
1972: BLACK
CRUSADER: Biography of Robert
Franklin Williams, Lyle Stuart
1973: THE
COLOR OF MAN: (50,000 copy printing) Calif. State Dept. of Education
1975:
INNER TRIP: Documentary, film history of Reiyukai, Buddhist sect,
Japan
1975:
Training
Director, Depts. of Labor & H.E.W. funded Audio-Visual
Training Program - Minorities, MGM Studios. Places 28 minority editors,
sound
recordists, makeup &
wardrobe graduates in Film &
TV Industries.
1975: RALLY
TO REOPEN THE ROSENBERG CASE: Writer, Producer, rally with
Henry Fonda,
Lee Grant, Martin
Sheen, Roscoe Lee Browne,etc.
1975:
Telethon
Producer, KVST-TV, Hollywood public service channel, programs
include:
CAN
THE ROSENBERG CASE BE REOPENED?
WHO
IS THE AMERICAN CONNECTION?
DEATH OF THE UNAMERICANS?, which included interviews with blacklisted
screenwriter
Abe Polonsky &
HUAC critic Frank Wilkinson, is lauded
as
a "Best
Bet" by LA Times TV Editor. But, while under consideration
by the Corp.
For Public Broadcasting
(CPB), the video master is
"lost" by that organization
1978: MONDO
HOLLYWOOD Music Director Mike Curb: Risen
to prominence in the
Republican Party, runs for office. Opponent,
incumbent
Calif.
Lt. Gov. Dymally
(D) who's not seen it,
charges the film is "pornographic" & that
Curb: "Sang falsetto in
a bath tub scene
with two
lesbians."
Cohen
affirms Curb's
electronically "falsettoed" off-screen
voice was
used & defends Curb's work in the film. Curb wins the
election
1978:
Returns
to China to film changed conditions since 1957
1983:
Consultant,
Nationwide Catholic TV Network, Santa Fe Communications
1986: MONDO
HOLLYWOOD Music Director Mike Curb: Narrowly
defeated in
1982 California Republican
Gubernatorial Primary; in 1986 once again
runs for
office of Lt. Gov. but now denies his voice was used in MONDO HOLLYWOOD.
Cohen reaffirms that Curb's voice was used.
Curb loses
election.
1988:
Founder
& Chairperson, "Citizens Committee To Preserve Beverly Hills
Landmarks." Sues Beverly Hills to block
demolition of abandoned Municipal
Waterworks; leading to it's
rehabilitation as the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts & Sciences "Center
For Motion Picture Study"
1997: ROCKY
MOUNTAIN WRITERS: Writer, Producer, Interviewer, 12 Interviews
for Boulder, Colorado, Community Access TV
2000: Visits Moscow during the first PEN World
Congress permitted in Russia.
Produces
PEN
WORLD CONGRESS
- MOSCOW 2000.
2004:
Produces THE NEW
AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Eight Voices of Dissent.
2007: Produces THE INVESTIGATION
OF WILLIAM MANDEL BY SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY
2007: Produces HOLLYWOOD
AGAINST WAR
2007: Produces DENVER
AGAINST WAR
2008: Publishes BLACK
CRUSADER, Illustrated Revised Edition
ORGANIZATIONS
& AFFILIATIONS:
Writers
Guild of America - West (WGAW)
Dramatists
Guild
California
Governor's Advisory Council for Employment of the Handicapped:
(Develops
guidelines for WGAW re Depiction of the Disabled in films & TV
programs)
Los
Angeles Mayor's Advisory Council for Employment of the Handicapped
LA
Center For Independent Living: Develops programs for Employment
of
the Disabled in Films & TVBeverly
Hills, California, Cable TV Advisory Committee
Boulder,
Colorado, Cable TV Task Force
Univ.
of Colorado Theater & Dance Departments Advisory Council
PRODUCTIONS
(Partial List):
MISTER
WISTER THE TIME TWISTER (1957) 7 min., Color:
Cartoon
Jean
Image Films, Paris, Writer, Designer
INSIDE
RED CHINA (1957) 45 min., B&W: Walter Reade-Sterling
"Special
of the Week" TV Series, Writer, Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor,
Narrator
INSIDE
EAST GERMANY (1959) 45 min., B&W:
Film
Lecture, Writer, Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor, Narrator
NO
MORE WAR (1960) 15 min., B&W:
Writer,
Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor
COMMITTEE
ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES (1962) 45 min., B&W:
Writer,
Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor
IWO
JIMA (1963) 22 min., B&W: Pilot, Official Films 39
Episode
"Battle
Line" TV Series, Assoc. Producer, Writer, Editor
PREMIERE
(1963) 10 min., B&W: The Hollywood premiere of "Cleopatra"
Co-Writer,
Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor
THREE
CUBANS (1963-64) 56 min., Color:
Writer,
Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor
MONDO
HOLLYWOOD (1965-67) 90 min., Color: Omega-Cyrano Prods.,
Writer,
Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor, Lyricist
INNER
TRIP (1975) 45 min., Color: The Reiyukai Buddhist Sect, Japan,
Co-Producer,
Co-Director, Writer, Co-Narrator, Editor
KVST
TELETHON (1975) Week-Long TV Fund Raiser, Writer, Producer
CAN
THE ROSENBERG CASE BE REOPENED? (1975) 90 min., Color:
Producer,
Writer, Interviewer
WHO
IS THE AMERICAN CONNECTION? (1975) 90 min., Color:
Producer,
Writer, Interviewer
DEATH
OF THE UNAMERICANS? (1975) 90 min., Color:
Producer,
Writer, Interviewer
ROCKY
MOUNTAIN WRITERS (1997) 30 min. each, Color: CATV-Boulder,
Colorado,
Series
of 12 TV Interviews, Producer, Writer, Interviewer
PEN WORLD CONGRESS
MOSCOW 2000 (2002)
50 min. color: Producer, Writer, Interviewer
LET IT
BURN - The Coming Destruction of the USA? (2002) 60 min.
color: Producer,
Writer, Interviewer
THE
NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Eight Voices of Dissent (2005)
30 min. color: Writer, Producer, Director, Cameraman, Editor
THE
INVESTIGATION OF WILLIAM MANDEL BY SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY (2007)
30 min.
color: Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
HOLLYWOOD
AGAINST WAR (2007) 22 min. color. Writer, Producer, Director,
Cameraman, Editor
DENVER AGAINST WAR (2007) 10 mjn. color. Writer,
Producer, Director,
Cameraman, Editor
BLACK
CRUSADER (2008) Illustrated Revised Edition Book - 498 pages.
B&W Photos. Writer,
Photographer, Publisher
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