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- From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,rec.arts.sf.tv
- Subject: WIZARD Pirated on TV Again
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 13:08:21 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 81
- Message-ID: <1elcc5INNpm8@gap.caltech.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu
- Summary: Look, Ma, I'm on TV. For free. Again.
- Keywords: Wizard, movie, TV, paranormal
-
-
- Except for the 1978 and 1979 Disney specials, the "Buckshot" pilot,
- "Dick Clark's Bloopers", and a few interview shows, my work has
- never appeared on TV. Not legally, anyway. And never on cable.
- (Reports of any sightings are very much appreciated.) On that note:
-
- Friday, 11/20/92 - I got a call from filmmaker Mark Frizzell, in
- Woburn, MA. He had just seen what looked like my filmwork on Fox's
- TV network, on a nationwide show. 13 seconds of it. Call the lawyers.
-
- Okeydokes. I found a VHS tape with space available, and waited for
- 9pm. And soon.. "You're watching `Fox's Friday Night Search Party'
- ...coming next, `SIGHTINGS'!" Appropriate enough. A half-hour show
- devoted to exploring and capitalizing on paranormal events.
-
- The first third covered sightings in Russia, and "UFO - UNANNOUNCED
- VISIT...One of the most popular programs in the country...Hosted by
- Alexsander Myogchenkov, a respected journalist and UFOlogist." And
- WIZARD footage pirate. The show's opening credits scrolled over the
- opening of our feature - actually clips from my 1977 short, ANIMATO -
- with my kinestasis sci-fi scenarios, USA rockets taking off out of
- the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, etc.
-
- ...Oh well, it's nice to have your work seen, even if someone else gets
- credit. I guess. And it's proof that "The Wizard of Speed and Time"
- made it to Russia. ("Get in line, NOW!")
-
- I called Alex Smirnoff, an L.A. video collector with friends in Moscow,
- to whom I had given a laserdisk with hopes of reaching Jittlov relatives.
- - Alex answered cheerfully...but no, he didn't know anything about my
- film being so used. - Uh-huh, but isn't that the "SIGHTINGS" show I hear
- in his background? - Oh, uh, he just turned the TV on, just now; and if I
- want Russian UFO's, why, he has several tapes he can give me on those.
- - No, I just want any information on what WIZARD is doing in Russia,
- for my archives. - Oh yeah, sure, no problem, he'll get right on it.
- - ...I shall not hold my breath for this.
-
- ISN'T THAT AMAZING FILE
-
- Ah, but wait, it gets better. I played back my video of the sequence,
- with its interview of Pavel Mukhortov, a reporter once sent into the
- mysterious "M Triangle" [no relation to "MJ-12", the CIA's UFO division].
- This is a remote area about 600 miles ENE of Moscow, famed as "a hotbed
- of UFO activity, mysterious light phenomenae, sudden insanity, and
- dangerous levels of radiation." So naturally his editor sent Pavel
- there. "Wild feelings came over me, strange photos were taken, and many
- of the group fell ill" (-incredible! that sounds just like our WIZARD
- production!) (or a party at Kibo's!)! He says that his "unbelieveable
- experiences" there "and new, almost superhuman abilities and knowledge"
- changed his life, and he soon became Soviet Space Cosmonaut #152. (OK...)
-
- One theory is that local hallucinations are caused by high levels of
- mercury (aha - Mercury, the god of SPEED! This is an obvious clue!).
-
- A map was shown. I froze the screen, opened my detailed atlas to the
- Soviet Union. Matched it to the screen. To the exact area, north of
- Perm. To a triangle, whose corners are the towns of Yayva, Yndin, and
- ...Kay. *gasp* - the very name of my esteamed business partner (who
- also played the slimey, embezzling, sociopathic producer in our movie)!
-
- COINCIDENCE? ...Or COSMIC PLAN? <*>^<*> YOU be the Judge!!
-
- Before you ask.. Yes, I DO believe in UFO's...because I have _built_
- many of them. In 1967, I and several friends (who wish to remain
- anonymous) made some really awesome space-stations of linked helium
- balloons, aluminum foil, blinking lights (one even had "UFO" on its
- side, plain as day)...and we were allegedly responsible for half of
- the sightings over Los Angeles. (Probably attracted the other half.)
-
- John Keel hates me for that. I can only imagine what a couple of
- Caltech minds could do, with the same talent spent on the Rose Bowl
- card stunt. ;> ;> ;> (that's a "heh heh heh" smiley:)
-
- -- "MJ-42"
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