SECTION
MEETING REPORT
March 21, 2007
Returning to the Linwood Dunn Theater after using other venues for the last two
months due to Academy Award screenings, we had an enthusiastic audience of
ninety members and guests. Our
speaker was Charles Tabesh, Senior vice-president, Programming,
of Turner Classic Movies, visiting from
Following the pre-show reception, featuring pizza courtesy of THX Best Practices
Lab, Mr. Tabesh was interviewed by Dick May, Hollywood Section manager.
Topics covered the volume of movies shown (about 2000 per year),
programming themes, and suppliers of
the pictures. Video clips of samples
of some of TCM’s special in-house produced documentaries were shown.
Also covered were the Young Film Composers contest and personality
interviews.
Questions were invited from the audience, with considerable participation.
A lot of new faces were noticed, showing
that this subject has a different interest than the more technical
presentations. The entire program
lasted about 90 minutes.