The Fabulous Ice Age

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The Fabulous Ice Age
Directed by: Keri Pickett
submitted by Keri Pickett
Foreign Titles
ENGLISH
FRENCH
GERMAN
ITALIAN
SPANISH
Czech
The Fabulous Ice Age
L'Age de Glace Fabulous
Die Fabelhafte Eiszeit
L'era Glaciale Fabulous
La Edad de Hielo Fabulosa
Bjecna ledova doba
3-Line Synopsis
The journey begins in 1915 when a young German skater ignites
America's love with dancing on ice. 'The Fabulous Ice Age'
chronicles a century of theatrical skating, from Berlin's Charlotte,
to America's Ice Follies, Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice, and the
Sonja Henie shows, illustrating how they dominated live
entertainment for decades, while also depicting one skaters'
quest to share this history. Never before seen footage, photos
and memorabilia introduces us to a handful of skaters, producers
and entrepreneurs who helped change their world. Starting in
America with the Hippodrome and hotel shows and big arena
shows, we then see how Holiday on Ice brought skating to
Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, to Asia, Africa and South
America, where ice had never been seen before.
3-Line Synopsis
Le voyage débute en 1915 quand une jeune patineuse allemande
enflamma l'Amérique en dansant sur la glace.
'L' Age Fabuleux
de la Glace' relate un siècle de patinage théâtral, comment ces
patineurs dominèrent le spectacle vivant pendant des décennies,
et nous font partager leur histoire.
Grace à des séquences de film
inédites, des photos et des documents d'archive rares, ce
documentaire présente une poignée de patineurs, de producteurs
et d'entrepreneurs qui contribuèrent à changer le monde.
L'histoire commence en Amérique avec des shows à
l'Hippodrome, dans des hôtels et des grandes arènes. Holiday on
Ice apporta le patinage artistique en Europe, derrière le Rideau
de Fer, en Asie, en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud, dans des
endroits qui n'avaient même jamais vu la glace.
Programming Descriptors
FORMS:Documentary
GENRES:Family, Educational, Dance, Independent,
Period/Historical, Culture, Art, Personal Narrative, History,
Biography
NICHES:African American, Asian, Asian American, Black,
Gay/Lesbian, Women, Senior/Aging, Student, Youth/Teen,
Children, Buddhist
Exact Runtime
01 hr : 12 min : 23 sec
Date of Completion
December 2012
Country of Production / Filming
U S A / Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta,
Mexico, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, U S A,
Submission Contact
Keri Pickett
Submission Contact
Pickett Pictures LLC
413 East Hennepin Avenue
Historic Old St. Anthony
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Gender: F
Date of Birth: 04-JUN-1959
612-623-3410 (Work)
612-801-6727 (Cell)
Production
Keri Pickett
Director (1st Project,1st Feature); Producer (1st Project,1st
Feature); Executive Producer (1st Project,1st Feature)
Pickett Pictures LLC
612-623-3410 (Work)
413 East Hennepin Avenue
612-801-6727 (Cell)
Historic Old St. Anthony
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Gender: F
Date of Birth: 04-JUN-1959
Suzanne Jurva
Co-Producer
Suzanne Jurva
3640 Woodbury Point
Cummings, GA, 30041
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
805-551-2633 (Day)
Writing
None provided by applicant.
Cast
Aja Zanova
Supporting
Gender: F
Atoy Wilson
Supporting
Gender: M
Betty Ann Goedhart
Voice
Gender: F
Bill Stine
Supporting
Gender: M
Cathy Steele-Bietak
Supporting
Gender: F
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SHOOTING FORMATS
HDV NTSC
DigiBeta NTSC
VHS NTSC
8mm
16mm
PREVIEW FORMATS
DVD Region0 NTSC
.MPG (MPEG or MPEG2)
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DVD Region0 NTSC
DVD Region1 NTSC
DVD Region0 NTSC
DVD Region1 NTSC
.MOV (Quicktime)
Exhibition Info
Print Frame Speed: Color + B/W, Stereo
Aspect Ratios: 1.78 (16x9 VIDEO)
Film Sound: Dolby Digital EX
Foreign Versions
This Project contains dialogue inEnglish with no translations
available.
Distribution
The project has NO distribution yet.
Screenings
Information not provided.
125-Word Synopsis
“The Fabulous Ice Age” chronicles the era of the great American
touring ice shows, their dazzling production numbers and variety
acts, how they dominated family entertainment for decades and
one skaters’ quest to keep this history from being forgotten.
Spanning a century of theatrical ice skating, this story focuses on
the formation of touring ice shows- Ice Follies, Ice Capades,
Holiday on Ice and Arthur Wirtz/Sonja Henie shows- before
evolving into today's skating exhibitions. The journey begins in
1915 when a young German skater ignites America’s love with
dancing on ice. In 1936, Minnesotan brothers Roy and Eddie
Shipstad and Oscar Johnson booked their skating troupe into a
Chicago hotel “tank show” paving the way for America’s first
touring ice show: Ice Follies. Simultaneously, Olympic skating
champion Sonja Henie took Hollywood by storm, resulting in the
creation of a lavish show starring Hollywood’s newest sensation.
As public interest soared, the Arena Managers Association
created the Ice Capades, and soon these ice shows were touring
year-round to packed houses. In 1945, Minnesotan Morris
Chalfen bought into Holiday on Ice whose portable ice system
brought business to a new scale, enabling him to book his ice
show into any-and-all venues. As part of America’s cultural
exchange program, shows traveled globally - behind the Iron
Curtain, and even to countries that had never seen ice before.
Rare archival footage, candid interviews with producers, skating
legends and devoted chorus “gypsies” bring this never-beforetold history of a uniquely American art form to life.
125-Word Synopsis
Le voyage débute en 1915 quand une jeune patineuse allemande
enflamma l'Amérique en dansant sur la glace.
'L' Age Fabuleux
de la Glace' relate un siècle de patinage théâtral, comment ces
patineurs dominèrent le spectacle vivant pendant des décennies,
et nous font partager leur histoire.
Grace à des séquences de film
inédites, des photos et des documents d'archive rares, ce
documentaire présente une poignée de patineurs, de producteurs
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Denise Benoit-Eby
Supporting
Gender: F
Dick Button
Supporting
Gender: M
Douglas Breniser
Voice
Gender: M
Gloria Nord
Supporting
Gender: F
Hans Wolfgang-Thurau
Supporting
Gender: M
Jack Johncock
Supporting
Gender: M
Jeanne Sook (Hill)
Supporting
Gender: F
Jill Shipstad
Supporting
Gender: F
JoJo Starbuck
Supporting
Gender: F
Joanne Mitsuko Funakoshi
Supporting
Gender: F
Joe Marshall
Supporting
Gender: M
John Flanagan
Supporting
Gender: M
Judy Thomas
Supporting
Gender: F
Katja Deetlevs
Supporting
Gender: F
Kenneth Feld
Supporting
Gender: M
Kenneth Shelley
Supporting
Gender: M
Lucille Miller
Supporting
Gender: F
Margaret Beard
Supporting
Gender: F
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et d'entrepreneurs qui contribuèrent à changer le monde.
L'histoire commence en Amérique avec des shows à
l'Hippodrome, dans des hôtels et des grandes arènes. Holiday on
Ice apporta le patinage artistique en Europe, derrière le Rideau
de Fer, en Asie, en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud, dans des
endroits qui n'avaient même jamais vu la glace.
250-Word Synopsis
'The Fabulous Ice Age' chronicles the era of the great American
touring ice shows revealing how, with their dazzling production
numbers and variety acts, they dominated family entertainment
for decades. It also depicts one skater's quest to keep this history
from being forgotten. The ice shows' creation and success
changed the lives of skaters and audiences alike - eventually
exporting American culture around the world. Rare archival
footage, candid interviews with producers, skating legends and
devoted chorus gypsies bring this never-before-told history of a
uniquely American art form to life. The journey begins in 1915
when a young German skater, Berlin's Charlotte, brings her
'ballet on ice' to New York's Hippodrome Theater, igniting
America's love of theatrical skating. In 1936, Minnesotan brothers
Roy and Eddie Shipstad and partner Oscar Johnson booked their
skating troupe (which had been performing at local ice carnivals
and hockey games) into a hotel tank show, thus laying the
groundwork for America's first touring ice show, the 'Ice Follies'.
Simultaneously, Olympic skating champion Sonja Henie took
Hollywood by storm, resulting in the creation of The Hollywood
Ice Revue, a lavish touring show starring Hollywood's newest
sensation. Henie continued to make movie after movie, quickly
becoming the highest paid star in Hollywood. As public interest
soared, the Arena Managers Association created the Ice
Capades, and soon 'the big three' were performing year-round to
packed houses. In 1945, Minnesotan Morris Chalfen bought into
a fledgling company called Holiday on Ice and, with the creation
of a portable ice system, brought the ice show touring business to
a new level, enabling him to book his show into any-and-all
venues. As a part of America's cultural exchange program, he
sent Holiday on Ice throughout Europe and behind the Iron
Curtain, eventually introducing ice shows to countries in Africa,
Asia, and South America - exporting American culture and values
through entertainment, even to places that had never seen ice.
Meanwhile, inspired by Henie's films, and roller skating star
Gloria Nord (Sonja Henie on wheels), a young Roy Blakey started
amassing his ice show collection and dreamed of becoming a
figure skater (a dream fulfilled when Roy began his skating career
in a hotel tank show, eventually joining Holiday on Ice's
international company during the 1960s). Since hanging up his
skates, Blakey has become the unofficial archivist of theatrical
skating, amassing a vast collection of posters, programs,
photographs, films, costumes and souvenirs. Blakey's IceStage
Archive holds the key to illustrating this amazing story of a
century of performing on the frozen stage. Roy, his fellow skaters
and the statesmen and women of the industry, recall an era when
sequined costumes, beautiful music and big production numbers
were an evening's entertainment for the entire family. Skating
legends, including 1964 Olympic Champion Dick Button, help tell
the story of a community who lived their dream by touring the
globe on a stage of ice,when ice shows employed thousands who
entertained millions worldwide. Scott Hamilton and Kenneth Feld,
producers of Stars on Ice and Disney on Ice, respectively, speak
about the evolution of theatrical ice-skating into the ice shows of
today. With never before seen footage, photos and rare archival
material, 'The Fabulous Ice Age' captures not only this glamorous
and important live-entertainment history, but also a portrait of a
sequestered family touring existence, living in the world on an
international level, but not of it. Spanning several generations,
this art form responded in its own way to social and political
turmoil and historical events: The Cold War, racial integration and
acceptance of sexual orientation. Yet through it all they were
creating a magical world of the ice shows.
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Nancy Kerrigan
Supporting
Gender: F
Reiko Kato
Supporting
Gender: F
Richard Dwyer
Supporting
Gender: M
Richard M. Morse
Supporting
Gender: M
Roy Blakey
Lead Actor
Gender: M
Scott Hamilton
Supporting
Gender: M
Shirli Mc Gaffen
Supporting
Gender: F
Skippy Baxter
Supporting
Gender: M
Stephanie Andros
Supporting
Gender: F
Terry S. King
Supporting
Gender: F
Tom Collins
Supporting
Gender: M
Camera
Greg Winter
Additional Photography
Blue 60
Minneapolis, MN
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Gender: M
Keri Pickett
Cinematographer/DP
Pickett Pictures LLC
413 East Hennepin Avenue
Historic Old St. Anthony
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Gender: F
Date of Birth: 04-JUN-1959
612-623-3410 (Work)
612-801-6727 (Cell)
Art Department
None provided by applicant.
Specialized
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None provided by applicant.
Post Production
Daniel C. Baker
Assitant Editor
1093 Flushing Aveue
Apartment #142
Brooklyn, NY, 11237
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Date of Birth: 27-DEC-1982
Michael Irei
Editor
Channel Z
15 South 5th St.
Suite 616
Minneapolis, MN, 55402
USA
[email protected]
Composers
Tamara Douglas-Morris
Original Music/Composer
1820 Hillhurst Ave
Los Angeles, CA, 90027
[email protected]
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 15-NOV-1982
14154208553 (Cell)
612-370-0016 (Work)
646-469-2835 (Home)
Representation
Martin Keller
Publicist
Media Savant Communications Co. 612-729-8585 (Work)
Minneapolis, MN
612-220-6515 (Cell)
USA
kelmart@aolcom
Print Traffic
Keri Pickett
Print Shipper; Print Return
Pickett Pictures LLC
413 East Hennepin Avenue
Historic Old St. Anthony
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
USA
[email protected]
Citizenship: U S A
Gender: F
Date of Birth: 04-JUN-1959
612-623-3410 (Work)
612-801-6727 (Cell)
Academic
None provided by applicant.
Animation
None provided by applicant.
Insured Value Expressed In
U.S. Dollar
20.00 BLU-RAY Video Submaster
10.00 DVD Video Submaster
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