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Jeffrey Peisch

DVD and CD productions

Jeffrey Peisch, an award-wining producer of television and music projects, has over 20 years of experience in home video and music marketing, with particular expertise in direct-response.  He has served as head of video at Time Life, where he introduced several new product categories that resulted in over $20 million in profit.  Prior to Time Life, he worked at Sony Music Entertainment and Vestron Video, a pioneering home video company that was the first organization to recognize a home video market for special interest programming.  Mr. Peisch has served as project director of “Ken Burns’s Jazz,” a 28-CD boxed set from Sony Music that received a Grammy nomination.  He was series producer of “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” a 10-hour television series for Time-Life/Warner Bros. Television that received an Emmy nomination.  He has worked as a consultant to a variety of clients including Sony Music; National Geographic Video; Nickelodeon; Smithsonian Video; Bertelsmann Intl. Direct; McGraw-Hill; Time-Life Music; the Verve Music Group; and PBS.

Mr. Peisch has served as Series Producer of the music CD set for “The Blues,” a PBS production of Vulcan Productions and Road Movies Production in association with Cappa Productions and Jigsaw Productions and Project Director of the music CD set for “Broadway: The American Musical,” a PBS production of Ghost Light Films and Thirteen/WNET.

 
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Tools to explore

MediaThread logoMediaThread is a next-generation platform for deep exploration, close analysis, and customized organization of web-based multimedia content. Designed at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, MediaThread is built on open-source software and enables users to view video closely, clip segments, attach annotations and tags, and organize them with other media for scholarly analysis.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

James Baldwin talking with students

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005.  Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.

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