That's all it took for the United States to go from being one of the first countries to launch a spacecraft off this big, blue marble to finally retiring a much more advanced version of that spacecraft.
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The opening credits of the television series Big Blue Marble can also be seen in the film; the show's production company also co-produced this film.
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The show taped 26 episodes per year for an unspecified duration. It ran through at least Friday, May 22, 1981, in its original noon timeslot, and through Friday, October 1, 1982, at 2 p.m. Big Blue Marble took over the timeslot the following week. Joya's Fun School then ran for a short time on Saturday mornings at 6 a.m.
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In 1971, Campbell founded his own animation studio, Ron Campbell Films, Inc.; the company's first project would also place him as associate producer for ABC's television special Nanny and the Professor. He would also go on to produce and direct animation in both the Emmy and Peabody award-winning children's shows, The Big Blue Marble and Sesame Street. Following this, Campbell worked on the hit animated series, The Smurfs.
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Tom Kennedy (c. 1948 – December 7, 2011) was an American film trailer producer, film director, voice-over artist, author, writer and film editor. Kennedy was raised in the Bronx, New York City, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he studied film. Kennedy worked as an editor for the PBS children's show, Big Blue Marble, during his early career. In 1977, he moved from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Snyder's father, Kenneth C. T. Snyder, was an Emmy-winning TV producer of many children's shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Among them were The Funny Company, Hot Wheels, animated segments on Sesame Street, Big Blue Marble and the cult classic Roger Ramjet. At the age of eight, Snyder was hired by his father as a voice talent for an animated special starring Sterling Holloway. Snyder continued doing children's voices alongside Gary Owens, June Foray and others until his voice changed and he was fired by his producer father.
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Anna to the Infinite Power is a 1982 science-fiction thriller film about a young teenager who learns that she was the product of a cloning experiment. The film was based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Mildred Ames. It was produced by Ned Kandell Enterprises and Film Gallery, previously responsible for the American syndicated children's series Big Blue Marble, and many alumni from that program worked on the film. The film was never released theatrically, but premiered on the pay-cable service HBO and later appeared on home video.
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From 1977 to 1982, he was the senior producer of PBS' The Big Blue Marble, which won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series. Between 1982 and 1984, he was an independent producer, working on projects that included HBO's What on Earth and PBS' The Primal Mind. Berman joined Paramount in 1984 as the director of current programming, overseeing series such as Cheers and Family Ties. He was also executive director of dramatic programming, overseeing series such as the miniseries Space and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) series MacGyver.
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Big Blue Marble was a half-hour children's television series that ran from 1974 to 1983 on numerous syndicated and PBS TV stations. Distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen-pal club that encouraged intercultural communication. The name of the show referred to the appearance of Earth as a giant marble, popularized by The Blue Marble, a famous photograph taken in December 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17. Each episode featured a segment about the real life of a boy and a girl, one American, the other foreign.
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Coronado Eagle and Journal, April 27, 2015. He had his first job in film working as an editor on Orson Welles's unfinished film Don Quixote. He then made a number of short films, worked on the television series Big Blue Marble, worked with John Lennon on two music videos, then made Best Boy. Best Boy premiered at the 1979 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of two documentary films (alongside Michael Moore's Roger & Me in 1989) to win the festival's People's Choice Award before a separate People's Choice Award was instituted for the festival's documentary stream.
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Subsequent similar images of Earth (including composites at much higher resolution) have also been termed Blue Marble images, and the phrase "blue marble" (as well as the picture itself) is frequently used, as in the Earth flag by environmental activist organizations or companies attempting to promote an environmentally conscious image. There has also been a children's television program called Big Blue Marble. Poet-diplomat Abhay Kumar penned an Earth anthem inspired by the Blue Marble which contains "all the peoples and the nations of the world, one for all, all for one, united we unfurl the blue marble flag".
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That film was shown at Cannes and was subsequently in the first program of New American Directors at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. In the years that followed, Theo Kamecke wrote, directed and filmed many documentary short films on subjects as varied as computers, coal mines and cowboys. He created a film projection for Jesus Christ Superstar, an award- winning, three-minute-long television commercial for IBM, and the first program for the children’s television series Big Blue Marble. Among his short films was the avant-garde and controversial The Incredible Bread Machine Film, for the World Research think tank in California (1974).
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Campbell's first television appearance was at the age of six, in an episode in 1974 of the PBS show The Big Blue Marble. As a child, she won many talent shows, going on to appear in such children's programs as Kids Are People Too, Unicorn Tales, and Captain Kangaroo. At age 16, she performed in the musical feature film, Little Shop of Horrors as Chiffon, one of The Supremes like girl group Greek Chorus, along with future Martin co star, Tichina Arnold. After graduating from the Arts High School in Newark, she moved to Hollywood, where she became a star on the short lived NBC musical comedy-drama series, Rags to Riches (1987–88).
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The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence (1997), about her childhood which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas, and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become. In the 1970s, the syndicated children's television program Big Blue Marble often invited viewers to write to them for their own pen pal. On another children's TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Pee-wee Herman would often receive pen pal letters. At the 1964/1965 World's Fair in New York, the Parker Pen pavilion provided a computer pen pal matching service; Parker Pen officially terminated the service in 1967.
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In the late 1970s, he reprised his performance in the title role for two regional productions in California, both under the auspices of the California Youth Theatre organization. The first reunited him with his Broadway and film co-stars Carl Anderson and Yvonne Elliman (as Judas and Mary Magdalene), and the second again cast him with his close friend Anderson. Among his other credits, Neeley composed music for and appeared in Academy Award winning Director, Robert Altman's film A Perfect Couple (1979) and performed the music for the TriStar feature film Blame It on the Night, NBC- TV's Highway to Heaven, and The Big Blue Marble for the Children's Television Network. He also wrote music for and starred in Cowboy Jack Street, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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With Blowhole foiled again and the monster back to normal, he tried to escape, but Skipper activated the Mind Jacker on Blowhole, wiping out his memories. He was soon returned to Coney Island under his old name of Flippy the Dolphin, where he was forced to jump through the Ring of Fire once again. He is also mentioned in "The Big S.T.A.N.K", where he was the reason that S.T.A.N.K was created, to lure him to the toilet-shaped stink bomb, but the project was abandoned with the realization that dolphins don't use toilets. He was mentioned again in "Operation: Big Blue Marble" when Skipper suggested Blowhole as a suspect for the recent environmental chaos and random weather conditions that they were experiencing, but Kowalski confirmed that Blowhole was still at Coney Island as Flippy.
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Barrero began his acting career in 1968 at the age of nine playing secondary roles in theater and voice-over work and made his debut in a leading role four years later with the Latin American version of the PBS series Big Blue Marble. Barrero was best known for his roles as the voice of Seiya in Saint Seiya, Rick Hunter and Scott Bernard in Robotech, Koji Kabuto in Mazinger Z, Yamcha in Dragon Ball, Jonny Quest in the Jonny Quest animated series, Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove, Jason Lee Scott/Red Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Koji Minamoto in Digimon Frontier, Rex in the Toy Story series, Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga, Zanmase Truesdale in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Deidara in Naruto and Yoichi Hiruma in Eyeshield 21. Barrero was diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2015 and died from complications of the disease on February 17, 2016 at the age of 57.
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