The Committee: Watts Translator 1965 by Space Gun published on 2020-11-24T01:57:55Z The Committee in performance, December 1965. Introduction by Garry Goodrow, with John Brent, Mel Stewart, Jessica Myerson, and Scott Beach. Music by Ellsworth Milburn, directed by Alan Myerson. Photo of John Brent and Mel Stewart by Fred Ross. "[Mel Stewart] is already a household word. And he's definitely in tune with improvisational humor. He's also engagingly droopy-eyed and dippy, particularly when he's the hipster leader of the Watts secessionist movement, telling off Scott Beach of the U.S. government, and Jessica Myerson of the United Nations, through the intermediary of interpreter John Brent". - Stanley Eichelbaum, San Francisco Examiner, December 18th, 1965 Audio recording courtesy of Alan Myerson Analog-to-digital preservation transfer by Bay Area Video Coalition Preservation Access Program The Committee: A Secret History of American Comedy is a project of Filmmakers Collaborative SF and Space Gun LLC, in partnership with Lekker Media and The San Francisco Improv Festival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots http://www.thecommitteemovie.com/ https://www.filmmakerscollaborative.org/the-committee Genre Comedy Comment by Joe Liss "Oh Stewardess, I speak jive." Fifteen years later in Airplane! Do you think Abrahams & The Zucker Brothers were in the audience? 2020-11-28T21:59:24Z
