MEDIA: FILM MAKER
FILM MAKER
CALLAGHAN BEGAN INTERVIEWING writers in 1964 for a television program called Show on Shows. In 1965 that program became Umbrella, hosted by the painter William Ronald. Callaghan continued to conduct filmed conversations with writers at home and internationally. In 1968, he was commissioned to make a one-hour documentary film which was subsequently broadcast as Callaghan’s New York. At the same time, he was one of four hosts on a CBC public affairs program, The Public Eye (the others were Jeanne Sauvé, Peter Jennings, and Norman DePoe).
In 1969, he was commissioned to make a one-hour documentary which was broadcast as Israel. In 1969, ’70, ’71, he made more than twenty-five short documentary films for the programs Saturday Night, Sunday Night, and Weekend. Among films of lasting impact were his conversations with Muhammad Ali, Golda Meir, his reports on the Palestinians and the Black September War, 1970, in Amman, Jordan, and his conversation with Angela Davis while she was in prison in California in 1971. He was fired in the spring of 1972 shortly after the Angela Davis interview was broadcast.
IN A RUINED CHURCH IN THE SINAI, SHELLED BY THE ISRAELIS PRIOR TO 1970
BARRY CALLAGHAN IN SHATILA REFUGEE CAMP, BEIRUT, 1970
WITH ANGELA DAVIS IN CALIFORNIA PRISON, 1971
IN AMMAN REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN, 1970
BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
COMING SOON! INTERVIEW WITH MUHAMMED ALI, 1969
