Dale Bell, Author And Academy Award Winning Producer Of The Film Woodstock Speaks To Maggie About Why Woodstock Still Matters

Maggie and Dale Bell discuss his book: Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation and the film, Woodstock 3 Days of Peace & Music: The Director's Cut screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Summer of Music: Concert Films 1959–2020 Jun 10 – Aug 26, 2023Dale Bell, has spent his professional life in the arts, television and film. His awards include the Academy Award (Woodstock), the Peabody Award (Kennedy Center Tonight), two Emmys, four BAFTAs, and two Christophers. His work―performance, dramatic, documentary, commercials and industrials―has been seen globally, primarily on public television and NBC, ABC, A&E, Discovery, History, The Learning Channel, TBS, and others. In 1999, he joined Harry Wiland to create the Media & Policy Center, where together, they have earned the Ashoka and the Purpose Prize Fellowships while producing social justice multi-media initiatives for PBS on such topics as health care, eldercare, sustainable pioneers, healthy schools and communities, and now, Opioids, the VW scandal, and Our Kids with Professor Robert Putnam. They have also been professors of a two-year graduate course at Woodbury University in Burbank that focuses on leveraging media for greater social justice.Henry Diltz is an extraordinary rock n roll photographer unlike any other. A founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet, Diltz is as much at home as a musician on tour, as he is a visual historian of the last four decades of popular music. The rapport he’s developed with his musician friends, along with his down-to-earth-grin and frequent laugh, enables him to capture the candid shots that convey a rare feeling of trust and intimacy with his subjects.Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award-winning documentary Woodstock. Assembled by associate producer Dale Bell, the oral history takes readers behind the scenes―and behind the camera―at the decade-defining event.Source: https://mediapolicycenter.org/meet-the-team/dale_bell/Source: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/dale-bell-60-living-woodstockSource: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/series/summer-of-music-concert-films-1959-2020Source: https://rarebirdlit.com/woodstock-interviews-and-recollections-by-dale-bell/Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Send us Fan MailSupport the show@profileswithmaggielepique@maggielepique