Wednesday's Fool on the history of Grizzly Adams with Don Malouf
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- A not so quick rant on the origins of Grizzly Adams, the people and times, and WEIRD story of where Grizzly Adams came from. After Sunday's show I reconnected with Don Malouf one of the other sound editors, who also went on to edit hundreds of films, several I know you have seen! My not be your cup of tea, but TRUST ME, it's funny and weird.
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I always loved the show, Grizzly Adams.. Growing up in rural Utah, with the mountains nearly in my back yard, and the north hills nearby.. Wild animals were abundant, and definitely not pets! But it was the message the show delivered... Kindness.. Love and respect for all living things. At the end of every episode.. Everyone had a smile!
really neat hearing a little tv history! I loved Grizzly Adams growing up
+Faster The Dragster We had a ball on it. Good times screwing around and getting paid for it.
Very informative and entertaining! Great things sometimes spring from "screwing around"! You mean I can't believe what I see on TV??? LOL! Jack
Jack R → Yeah, about as reliable as stuff you read on the internet...《GRIN》
I recall how Intense those Sun/ Schick Movie Commercials were for The UFO or Big Foot-Type
Films. They'd run them late at night, and with that narrator, you'd believe anything he said!
It is my cup of tea. What an insight of what happens beyond the camera.Good work.
Mel Hardmans first studio was part of Salt Lake City's old "movie row". The studio (MHP Studios) was eventually part of Stockdales which sold and processed film and camera equipment. I was A2 with Hal Hansen recording the Toklat soundtrack in their large room and was friends with Mel for many years--I may still have a main theme copy somewhere. The "Church studio" was where he moved to when Stockdales decided to open "TapeTech" with Hal Hansen engineering. I worked at TapeTech and in the four incarnations of the Church Studio. I also was A1/A2 on the Sun Classic movies and all the Grizzly Adams TV series. Somewhere I still have my Sun Classic Pictures magnetic sign for my car.
Hi Klay!! Long time..... i used to have a great bumper sticker that said I lost mine at Stockdale‘s. They had a pretty bad reputation back then. Haven’t seen you in like forever. Hope you’ve been well. After a stent in California I’ve ended up back here in Utah.
Wow!! I spent weeks researching all this for an upcoming podcast and have never heard anyone talk about these details of the crazy history of Grizzly Adams before. Thanks for these extra details. The woman was Dick's girlfriend Carol Elasz. Dick was a trip and I never found an obituary for him, but there is a 99-year-old Dick Robinson in the Salt Lake area according to public records...Chuck came onto Sunn in June 1974 as best I can tell. They had already picked up distribution of 'Chariots' before then and were booking it in theaters at the beginning of the year. He must have flipped his lid when he saw the Dick Robinson footage...I too wonder about Chuck's 'computer....' his obsession with his concept testing led to some odd choices, and I think at least some of the 'results' were things he already wanted to do. Some of the testing led to box office failures, like The Lincoln Conspiracy.
Those were trippy times. I had to walk a tightrope. I worked for Chuck but later I also worked for Dick. I did post sound on Dicks griz and the TV Griz and the last two features. And when Dick sued chuck the court was moved the the screening room at Sunn. Just outside my edit room. Sigh. Do it was weird. I lost track of Dick ( on purpose) but ran into him in about 1995? When I was teaching at the University of Utah. I ran into him at Wendy’s. Anyway he was living in his car and peddling VHS tapes of his films. He was on crop circles. Had some “theories”. He had pissed away the 2 million he won from Sunn. Anyway… grizzly Dick. Oh the stories.
I first met Dick in 1976. I was in film school. We we’re making a si fi film and dick did a scene with his wolf. First scene we shot. Then there was Ed. Local production company. Film group. Anyway Ed said he believed in Dick and I felt he was just using him to get the Sunn money. So they went up into the mountains several times with a full crew. Their goal was to have a medicine man conjure up big foot. Needless to say big foot never showed up. I worked on that film. To build a miniature set for shooting miniature big foot figures. Dick fired me. Didn’t like my version of the “”crystal cave” where the creatures live. Crystal cave? News to me. No matter. Film was never finished. Like I say. Big foot never showed up.
@@ToyManTelevision Oh, Lord, the Bigfoot stuff. I was wondering if he ever made or tried to make his Bigfoot film. 2 million, huh? I could never find details of the settlement. I know he claimed later in the 1990s that he was given half ownership of the Grizzly Adams franchise...but since he was known to say a lot of 'things' I wasn't convinced that was true.
Yes, he was also trying to market a map dowsing system to find missing kids and failed to pay income tax for 22 years.
@@ToyManTelevision I also wonder about the legitimacy of some of his tapes - around 1982 he was selling the holiday episodes of Grizzly Adams under his Ranger Rob Video brand. The packaging was incredibly amateurish (literal cut and paste inserts on a VHS clamshell) and he made sure to have HIS OWN picture on the back as "Dick Robinson, originator of 'Grizzly Adams.'" I don't think these were authorized releases for obvious reasons. I wonder if Taft/Sunn ever tried to pursue him over these videos...
That was awesome! I rather enjoyed hearing the history of Grizzly Adams with you, and Don Malouf!
Thank you so much! :-)
P.S. I totally now understand, what you mean by the term… "Screwing Around!!" Again, Thx!
+JPilot2 Thanks for the comment! Fun looking back. Good times. (life and times)
Your welcome! Yes, sound like a lot of "Screwing Around!!" ;-) By the way, I've recently watched Escape to Grizzly Mountain. Where a latch-key kid (Miko Hughes) rescues an abused bear cub and brings it to a secret cave leading to a time vortex. (Starring Dan Haggerty) Great family entertainment!!
I think that was the last one. With the new bears as Bozo was dead by then. I think there were 5 features. Not sure.
Thank you very much for your reply! I will use some 'Columbo' like research, and see if there were 5 features or more. But, as you may know already. "New Grizzly Adams Film And TV Series Projects Are Currently In The Works… Grizzly Adams® is developing new film and television series projects based on the exploits of the real John "Grizzly" Adams, whose life inspired the original motion picture and TV series." Cheers! :-)
The first film was really a take off on Jeremiah Johnson. Dick Robensen was the bear trainer on that, and wanted to come up with his own film about his "past life" as John Adams. His script was very much taken from Jeremiah Johnson but with no war with the natives and a wife. Mad Jack is Bear Claw. And much of the action is right out of Jeremiah Johnson. It's out as "Mountain Charlie". (as I recall) After Dick sued (won 2M) he was also able to release the first Grizzly Adams under a different name. We had to change the audio to take out the Adams name.
What a great piece from Toy Man. I am sure he looks at my comments and goes, "Oh Good Griief, what's this guy got to say, this time?.." I too, (IT figures.) worked in an exclusive industry. I understand when a person shares, as RIch Tathuey would say on old train videos, "...a small succulent slice of a time...." In Toy Man's pursuit of, "Major Screwing Around", his career, not much different then my own was really all about some, "Major Screwing Around." ("Oh it just figures..) Thanks for the rant.
This is really interesting hearing about some of the things that went on behind the scenes. I wish I could make a TV show. I have lots of ideas but no money.
+Daniel Mccoy Fun and WEIRD times. Life and Times....
So Chuck played a part in the fact, my childhood was cussing, and why I, always thought raccoons sounded like spider monkeys. That is until I came upon one in the woods, that hissed at me kind of like a cat. LoL!
LoL!
Wow ,your an interesting person Mr Toyman. Now if we can just get you to improve the sounds for model railroad equipment............ I have just enrolled to go back to college (I'm 61mind) to learn a bit more about speaker design and enclosures. At Least it will be a good way to fill some time. Cheers Les
I've heard of the TV show Grizzly Adams, but I've never heard of the real person.
+Jason Carpp I guess he was real. Or so they say. Ran from the law and became a mountain man in Utah.
+Toy Man Television Yeah. That's what I've heard about him. I didn't know that he either lived or worked in Utah.
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