About
Stan Hirson
Stan started his professional career as a documentary film maker at WGBH-TV in Boston in 1962. Among his credits was being floor manager on Julia Child's first shows of The French Chef. He covered the civil rights movement in the South for National Educational Television in 1963 and made film portraits of James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Stan joined the Maysles Brothers as Associate and was involved in the films such as The Beatles in America, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens, and numerous television documentaries.
As a result of his films about the workplace, he was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to the Graduate School of Management at UCLA at the Center for Quality of Working Life and left his film career to practice organizational consultation. He trained in group and organizational behavior at the Washington School of Psychiatry and was awarded a fellowship at London's Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. In addition to consulting to industry he taught group and organizational dynamics at the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College of Columbia University.
He currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley where he has consolidated his careers to make documentary videos for the internet.
You might like to visit one of his other websites, Thinking Global, Acting Local, which is a growing source of videos about climate change, carbon sequestration, biochar production and stove technology among other subjects.
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written by Milt Lee , February 21, 2009
Stan,
I found your blog through the video blogging group. Nice work. I enjoy the relaxed pace, and especially like the exposition of people just being people - particularly regular folks. I suppose I'm a romantic, but there you are. We are working on a homestead in Northern Minnesota, and will be doing a bunch of stuff from up there this summer. I'll be watching your stuff, and hope you get a chance to see what I've been working on.
Milt Lee
written by Roger Conant , October 29, 2009
Stan: I love this site! Nice work. I too found you through the Yahoo VBloggers. I am a video guy, just embarking on short videos for the web. I will pass on my blogsite when it is cleaned up . right now I would not have company over as it is a mess. I appreciate your video work and the preservation of rural life as well. great work. Roger.
