David F. Oyster

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David Fairfax Oyster, Jr. (born August 18, 1945 in Georgia ) is an American television producer , documentary filmmaker and cameraman .

Life

Oyster studied from 1963 at the University of Virginia , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in speech and acting in 1967 . From January 1970 to April 1971 he served as First Lieutenant in the United States Army in the Vietnam War . From August 1971 to February 1974 he was production coordinator at Wolper Productions (now The Wolper Organization). During this collaboration in 1974 he worked as a cameraman for the film The Mating of Animals . In 1975 he founded his own company, Oyster Productions . From 1978 to 2010 he worked as a producer, screenwriter and director for KCET in Los Angeles , KQED in San Francisco , WQED in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles and Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). In 1980 he co-directed twelve of thirteen episodes of Carl Sagan's documentary series Our Cosmos . In 1981 he was responsible for the shots of a bald eagle in the film Two Like a Cat and a Mouse . For his documentary Flight of the Whooping Crane from 1984, Oyster was able to win over John Huston as narrator. In 1985 he shot the falcon scenes for the film The Falcon and the Snowman and in 1987 the nature shots in the film Shy People - Threatening Silence . From 1993 to 1994 he was an associate professor in the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California . In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 2010 he was a lecturer in a documentary and video production seminar at the University Centers of the San Miguel in Telluride , Colorado .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1974: The pairings of animals ( Birds Do It, Bees Do It , camera)
  • 1975: Up from the Ape (camera)
  • 1980: Our Cosmos ( Cosmos: A Personal Voyage , director)
  • 1984: Flight of the Whooping Crane (Director, Writer, and Producer)
  • 1986: Chesapeake Borne (Director, Writer and Producer)
  • 1986: Teenage America: Glory Years (writer)
  • 1990: The Earthday Special (producer)
  • 1994: Futurequest (producer)
  • 1997: Polar Bears: Arctic Terror (writer and producer)
  • 1998: Legendary Lighthouses (Director and Screenplay)
  • 2007: Saving the American Wild Horse (camera)
  • 2010: Wild Horses and Renegades (camera)

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SURNAME Oyster, David F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oyster, David Fairfax, Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television producer, documentary filmmaker, and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgia