TIMELINE
1. Thomas Marshall Penick arrives at UCLA on October 3, 1966
2.Thomas and Charles Burnett meet at UCLA in the winter of 1968
3. Thomas and Charles Burnett take Elyseo Taylor's "Film & Social Change Class" 1968 or 1969
4. Teshome Gabriel is in the class around this same time.
5. Professor Elyseo J. Taylor requests that I be a research assistant for the department to facilitate the entry into the department of 20 minority filmmakers / Black / Asian / Native American / Hispanic. I had written a paper, "Towards a Black Lifestyle" that Taylor wanted me to publish in Germany. He had given my paper the highest grade in his "Film & Social Change" class and it tied in nicely with what he had in mind for enlarging the department with minority students.
6. In the summer of 1969 Tom Penick made "69 Pickup" Project One after much pleading from Professor Taylor. Charles Burnett was absolutely essential to me in the making of my first film. I merely wanted to write long form subjects.
7. "YES... 1st Book of Poetry" by Thomas Marshall Penick was published by the Xlibris Corporation on 1/11/11 and is in consideration for a Pulitzer Prize Letters: Poetry for the 2012 cycle. Winners will be announced 4/16/12
These are the corrections for the biographical sketch on the la rebellion website:
Thomas Marshall Penick is an ultra prolific writer, global executive producer, international author, and creative film editor. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Penick attended UCLA to study History & Sociology. His specialty is Screenwriting. He received his B.A. in Theater Arts / Motion Pictures / Specialty Screenwriting in the summer of 1971. He directed the short, 69 Pickup (1969), for his UCLA Project One film in the summer of 1969 with a 1969 purple Buick Riviera owned by actor, Charles Bracy. The film was shot on Adams & Western at 2906 South Western Avenue. Penick was befriended by, and worked alongside, directors and fellow UCLA students Jamaa Fanaka and Charles Burnett, serving as production manager and editor on My Brother’s Wedding (1983 - 1985). He was given a cameo role by Burnett as "dead body in coffin." His home in the elegant La Fayette Square was used heavily by Charles Burnett for the picture to save on location moves and costs.
Burnett introduced Fanaka to Penick early in Fanaka's career.
Penick’s first role in the motion picture industry was as assistant film editor on Lady Sings the Blues (1972), starring Diana Ross. Penick went on to work alongside Oscar-winning editor Michael Kahn on the TV pilot “Fuzz Brothers” (1973), and the feature films, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) and Nightmare Circus (1974). Penick turned Michael Kahn down 3 times when Kahn wanted him to work on Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
He worked for 4 Academy Award Winners in Film Editing: Ralph E. Winters, Henry Berman, Evan Lottman, and Michael Kahn. Penick's work for Paramount Pictures included serving as the assistant editor and projectionist on the Gordon Parks film, Leadbelly (1974 - 1975) which was shot in Austin, Texas in 1974. Penick also worked as an assistant film editor on a variety of television series and he was the trailer editor for domestic television syndication for MGM from 1975 - 1978, including the miniseries, “George Washington” (1984). At Warner Bros., Penick was the First Assistant Editor on Ken Russell’s Altered States (1979 - 1980). He was the first person hired in post production and the last person terminated from Altered States upon its completion by Producer Howard Gottfried on August 28, 1980. Ken Russell was the director. Paddy Chayefsky wrote the script.
Currently, Penick is a vibrant, ultra prolific EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / Author / Poet, and contributes to numerous newsletters, (7) sites on the Google YouTube as dadhiltonmps, nudrum, dcpenwick, and angeltina4, ( 9 ) sites on myspace: samosetdcwolfthomas, globalhumthomas, thomashumsmovies, with 2 sites on Facebook and over 50 websites and Blogs.
1. Thomas Marshall Penick arrives at UCLA on October 3, 1966
2.Thomas and Charles Burnett meet at UCLA in the winter of 1968
3. Thomas and Charles Burnett take Elyseo Taylor's "Film & Social Change Class" 1968 or 1969
4. Teshome Gabriel is in the class around this same time.
5. Professor Elyseo J. Taylor requests that I be a research assistant for the department to facilitate the entry into the department of 20 minority filmmakers / Black / Asian / Native American / Hispanic. I had written a paper, "Towards a Black Lifestyle" that Taylor wanted me to publish in Germany. He had given my paper the highest grade in his "Film & Social Change" class and it tied in nicely with what he had in mind for enlarging the department with minority students.
6. In the summer of 1969 Tom Penick made "69 Pickup" Project One after much pleading from Professor Taylor. Charles Burnett was absolutely essential to me in the making of my first film. I merely wanted to write long form subjects.
7. "YES... 1st Book of Poetry" by Thomas Marshall Penick was published by the Xlibris Corporation on 1/11/11 and is in consideration for a Pulitzer Prize Letters: Poetry for the 2012 cycle. Winners will be announced 4/16/12
These are the corrections for the biographical sketch on the la rebellion website:
Thomas Marshall Penick is an ultra prolific writer, global executive producer, international author, and creative film editor. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Penick attended UCLA to study History & Sociology. His specialty is Screenwriting. He received his B.A. in Theater Arts / Motion Pictures / Specialty Screenwriting in the summer of 1971. He directed the short, 69 Pickup (1969), for his UCLA Project One film in the summer of 1969 with a 1969 purple Buick Riviera owned by actor, Charles Bracy. The film was shot on Adams & Western at 2906 South Western Avenue. Penick was befriended by, and worked alongside, directors and fellow UCLA students Jamaa Fanaka and Charles Burnett, serving as production manager and editor on My Brother’s Wedding (1983 - 1985). He was given a cameo role by Burnett as "dead body in coffin." His home in the elegant La Fayette Square was used heavily by Charles Burnett for the picture to save on location moves and costs.
Burnett introduced Fanaka to Penick early in Fanaka's career.
Penick’s first role in the motion picture industry was as assistant film editor on Lady Sings the Blues (1972), starring Diana Ross. Penick went on to work alongside Oscar-winning editor Michael Kahn on the TV pilot “Fuzz Brothers” (1973), and the feature films, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) and Nightmare Circus (1974). Penick turned Michael Kahn down 3 times when Kahn wanted him to work on Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
He worked for 4 Academy Award Winners in Film Editing: Ralph E. Winters, Henry Berman, Evan Lottman, and Michael Kahn. Penick's work for Paramount Pictures included serving as the assistant editor and projectionist on the Gordon Parks film, Leadbelly (1974 - 1975) which was shot in Austin, Texas in 1974. Penick also worked as an assistant film editor on a variety of television series and he was the trailer editor for domestic television syndication for MGM from 1975 - 1978, including the miniseries, “George Washington” (1984). At Warner Bros., Penick was the First Assistant Editor on Ken Russell’s Altered States (1979 - 1980). He was the first person hired in post production and the last person terminated from Altered States upon its completion by Producer Howard Gottfried on August 28, 1980. Ken Russell was the director. Paddy Chayefsky wrote the script.
Currently, Penick is a vibrant, ultra prolific EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / Author / Poet, and contributes to numerous newsletters, (7) sites on the Google YouTube as dadhiltonmps, nudrum, dcpenwick, and angeltina4, ( 9 ) sites on myspace: samosetdcwolfthomas, globalhumthomas, thomashumsmovies, with 2 sites on Facebook and over 50 websites and Blogs.
