From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: WIZARD Pirated on TV Again
Date: 21 Nov 1992 13:08:21 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu
Summary: Look, Ma, I'm on TV.  For free.  Again.
Keywords: Wizard, movie, TV, paranormal


Except for the 1978 and 1979 Disney specials, the "Buckshot" pilot,
"Dick Clark's Bloopers", and a few interview shows, my work has
never appeared on TV.  Not legally, anyway.  And never on cable.
(Reports of any sightings are very much appreciated.)  On that note:

Friday, 11/20/92 - I got a call from filmmaker Mark Frizzell, in
Woburn, MA.  He had just seen what looked like my filmwork on Fox's
TV network, on a nationwide show.  13 seconds of it.  Call the lawyers.

Okeydokes.  I found a VHS tape with space available, and waited for
9pm.   And soon.. "You're watching `Fox's Friday Night Search Party'
...coming next, `SIGHTINGS'!"  Appropriate enough.  A half-hour show
devoted to exploring and capitalizing on paranormal events.

The first third covered sightings in Russia, and "UFO - UNANNOUNCED
VISIT...One of the most popular programs in the country...Hosted by
Alexsander Myogchenkov, a respected journalist and UFOlogist."  And
WIZARD footage pirate.  The show's opening credits scrolled over the
opening of our feature - actually clips from my 1977 short, ANIMATO -
with my kinestasis sci-fi scenarios, USA rockets taking off out of
the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, etc.

...Oh well, it's nice to have your work seen, even if someone else gets
credit.  I guess.  And it's proof that "The Wizard of Speed and Time"
made it to Russia.  ("Get in line, NOW!")

I called Alex Smirnoff, an L.A. video collector with friends in Moscow,
to whom I had given a laserdisk with hopes of reaching Jittlov relatives. 
- Alex answered cheerfully...but no, he didn't know anything about my
film being so used. - Uh-huh, but isn't that the "SIGHTINGS" show I hear
in his background? - Oh, uh, he just turned the TV on, just now; and if I
want Russian UFO's, why, he has several tapes he can give me on those.
- No, I just want any information on what WIZARD is doing in Russia,
for my archives. - Oh yeah, sure, no problem, he'll get right on it.
- ...I shall not hold my breath for this.

                      ISN'T THAT AMAZING FILE

Ah, but wait, it gets better.  I played back my video of the sequence,
with its interview of Pavel Mukhortov, a reporter once sent into the
mysterious "M Triangle" [no relation to "MJ-12", the CIA's UFO division].
This is a remote area about 600 miles ENE of Moscow, famed as "a hotbed
of UFO activity, mysterious light phenomenae, sudden insanity, and
dangerous levels of radiation."  So naturally his editor sent Pavel
there.  "Wild feelings came over me, strange photos were taken, and many
of the group fell ill" (-incredible! that sounds just like our WIZARD
production!) (or a party at Kibo's!)!  He says that his "unbelieveable
experiences" there "and new, almost superhuman abilities and knowledge"
changed his life, and he soon became Soviet Space Cosmonaut #152. (OK...)

One theory is that local hallucinations are caused by high levels of
mercury (aha - Mercury, the god of SPEED!  This is an obvious clue!).

A map was shown.  I froze the screen, opened my detailed atlas to the
Soviet Union.  Matched it to the screen.  To the exact area, north of
Perm.  To a triangle, whose corners are the towns of Yayva, Yndin, and
...Kay.  *gasp* - the very name of my esteamed business partner (who
also played the slimey, embezzling, sociopathic producer in our movie)!

    COINCIDENCE? ...Or COSMIC PLAN?   <*>^<*>   YOU be the Judge!!

Before you ask..  Yes, I DO believe in UFO's...because I have _built_
many of them.  In 1967, I and several friends (who wish to remain
anonymous) made some really awesome space-stations of linked helium
balloons, aluminum foil, blinking lights (one even had "UFO" on its
side, plain as day)...and we were allegedly responsible for half of 
the sightings over Los Angeles.  (Probably attracted the other half.)

John Keel hates me for that.  I can only imagine what a couple of
Caltech minds could do, with the same talent spent on the Rose Bowl
card stunt.  ;> ;> ;>   (that's a "heh heh heh" smiley:)

-- "MJ-42"
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