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Steven Spielberg and Night Gallery 50 years ago today (on November 8, 1969) Steven Spielberg's first professional directorial effort was released on the world. His contribution to the Pilot Episode of Rod Serlings Nigh Gallery, called Eyes (the Pilot Episode featured 3 stories: The Cemetery (directed by Boris Sagal), Eyes (directed by Spielberg) , and The Escape Route (directed by Barry Shear). In Eyes Joan Crawford plays a wealthy, blind, woman who has found out that an costly operation is possible that will give her (back) her eyesight for a period of 12 hours. Intending to make every second count, if the operation works, there is one thing both the doctors and the patient haven't counted on... In this clip, Steven Spielberg talks about his experience with Night Gallery. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Williams and a whole lot more.

Spielberg’s Savage Staging.  Guest Post By Joe Menendez When people in Hollywood say: “I’m looking for the next Steven Spielberg”, or “so-and-so is the next Steven Spielberg”, they’re usually referring to box-office success, or to a type of blockbuster movie typically associated with Spielberg. What they hardly ever mean is that they’re looking for somebody with Spielberg’s directorial prowess. Somebody with complete and total command of his or her craft. I’m the producer/director on the TV series SIREN for Freeform, and as season 3 ramped up, I was tasked with helping find directors for seven of our 10-episode order (I was directing the other three). While there are numerous factors that go into who gets hired to direct episodes of any given television series, I dutifully watched every submission sent to us. I intended to find the next Steven Spielberg. However, because of the nature of television, it’s a bit of a challenge to distinguish one TV director from another, ...

Steven recollecting (in 1982) how it got all started, by directing Joan Crawford in one of the three stories that made up the pilot for Rod Serling's Night Gallery in 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EeRJCJe88g Ronny THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

On the 6th day of 2015 we can celebrate the 45th birthday of Steven Spielberg's second effort into tv-work: Make Me Laugh, It was Steven's second contribution to this anthrology-series created by the legendary Rod Serling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khl97sAqhIw Happy Birthday, even though the stars don't look that happy to me... Ronny THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS