A Filmmaker's Journal

After almost being killed during the Battle of the Bulge, and then as an interpreter, investigator and prosecutor in Military Government after the war sending NAZIs to Nuremberg, how does a Nuclear Physics Major at Harvard, go from being an NBC Page to creating and directing NYU’s Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting, at its School of Continuing Education, one of the finest film schools on the east coast? And, along the way, making films about poverty in Latin America, “Confucius,” the settlement of the American Southwest, and the historic “Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August, 1945,” earning more than three dozen national and international awards, becoming a consultant to the President of Harvard, the United Nations and, for more than twenty years, the Government of Japan? And, during his spare time, being an expert lecturer on eleven luxury cruise ships?