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Tom Mills: /* Free to Choose */

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Tom Mills: /* Free to Choose */

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Tom Mills: /* Free to Choose */

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2009-11-20T16:48:08Z

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2009-10-23T15:02:41Z

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Tom Mills at 13:48, 23 October 2009

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Tom Mills: /* Free to Choose */

2009-10-22T12:52:50Z

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Tom Mills at 12:49, 22 October 2009

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">After months of preliminary
-planning, actual filming began in March of 1978 and was not completed until September of 1979. [[Anthony Jay]], [[Michael Peacock]], and [[Robert Reid]] of Video-Arts played a key role in the initial design of the series and an important supervisory role thereafter.<p>Five TV professionals were with us throughout most of the filming and editing: [[Michael Latham]], as producer of the series; [[Graham Massey]], as film director; [[Eben Wilson]], as an associate producer and principal researcher; [[Margaret Young]], as assistant film director and production secretary; and [[Jackie Warner]], as production manager. They initiated us gently but firmly into the arcane art of making TV documentaries and smoothed over the difficult spots with invariable tact and friendship. <ref>Milton and Rose Friedman, ''Free to Choose: A Personal Statement'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jonanovich, 2001) pp.x-xi</ref></p></blockquote>
+planning, actual filming began in March of 1978 and was not completed until September of 1979. [[Antony Jay|Anthony Jay]], [[Michael Peacock]], and [[Robert Reid]] of Video-Arts played a key role in the initial design of the series and an important supervisory role thereafter.<p>Five TV professionals were with us throughout most of the filming and editing: [[Michael Latham]], as producer of the series; [[Graham Massey]], as film director; [[Eben Wilson]], as an associate producer and principal researcher; [[Margaret Young]], as assistant film director and production secretary; and [[Jackie Warner]], as production manager. They initiated us gently but firmly into the arcane art of making TV documentaries and smoothed over the difficult spots with invariable tact and friendship. <ref>Milton and Rose Friedman, ''Free to Choose: A Personal Statement'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jonanovich, 2001) pp.x-xi</ref></p></blockquote>
 The [[BBC]] bought the rights to six of the programmes, <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.499</ref> five of which were broadcast with studio discussions with [[Milton Friedman]] hosted by the neoliberal economist and journalist [[Peter Jay]]. According to the BBC Motion Gallery the title of each segment and the date of its broadcast were as follows: ''Free to Choose:1:Power of Markets'' (16 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:2: The Tyranny of Control'' (23 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:3:Anatomy of Crisis'' (1 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:4: Created Equal'' (8 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:5: Who Protects the Consumer?'' (15 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:6: How to Cure Inflation'' (22 March 1980). All but ''Power of Markets'' were broadcast with a were broadcast with discussions hosted by [[Peter Jay|Jay]].

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">After months of preliminary
-planning, actual filming began in March of 1978 and was not completed until September of 1979. Anthony Jay, Michael Peacock, and Robert Reid of Video-Arts played a key role in the initial design of the series and an important supervisory role thereafter.<p>Five TV professionals were with us throughout most of the filming and editing: Michael Latham, as producer of the series; Graham Massey, as film director; Eben Wilson, as an associate producer and principal researcher; Margaret Young, as assistant film director and production secretary; and Jackie Warner, as production manager. They initiated us gently but firmly into the arcane art of making TV documentaries and smoothed over the difficult spots with invariable tact and friendship. <ref>Milton and Rose Friedman, ''Free to Choose: A Personal Statement'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jonanovich) pp.x-xi</ref></p></blockquote>
+planning, actual filming began in March of 1978 and was not completed until September of 1979. [[Anthony Jay]], [[Michael Peacock]], and [[Robert Reid]] of Video-Arts played a key role in the initial design of the series and an important supervisory role thereafter.<p>Five TV professionals were with us throughout most of the filming and editing: [[Michael Latham]], as producer of the series; [[Graham Massey]], as film director; [[Eben Wilson]], as an associate producer and principal researcher; [[Margaret Young]], as assistant film director and production secretary; and [[Jackie Warner]], as production manager. They initiated us gently but firmly into the arcane art of making TV documentaries and smoothed over the difficult spots with invariable tact and friendship. <ref>Milton and Rose Friedman, ''Free to Choose: A Personal Statement'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jonanovich, 2001) pp.x-xi</ref></p></blockquote>
 The [[BBC]] bought the rights to six of the programmes, <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.499</ref> five of which were broadcast with studio discussions with [[Milton Friedman]] hosted by the neoliberal economist and journalist [[Peter Jay]]. According to the BBC Motion Gallery the title of each segment and the date of its broadcast were as follows: ''Free to Choose:1:Power of Markets'' (16 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:2: The Tyranny of Control'' (23 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:3:Anatomy of Crisis'' (1 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:4: Created Equal'' (8 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:5: Who Protects the Consumer?'' (15 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:6: How to Cure Inflation'' (22 March 1980). All but ''Power of Markets'' were broadcast with a were broadcast with discussions hosted by [[Peter Jay|Jay]].

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[[Bob Chitester|Bob]] [Chitester] had been planning a trip to London to talk to the BBC about its interest in acquiring the program when it was completed and to talk with possible producers... By far the most important interview was with [[Antony Jay]], recommended by [[Ralph Harris]] [Director General of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]] as “a Friedman fan” (initially from reading my [1973] ''Playboy'' interview). Jay was a partner in Video Arts, a television production company formed by ex-BBC employees who had wanted to escape bureaucracy… [Later] Bob and I took off on September 20 for London, where we had extensive discussions with [[Antony Jay]] and two of his partners who were to be the most closely involved in the production of ''[[Free to Choose]]'', [[Michael Peacock]], managing director and [[Robert Reid]], chairman. In addition, Peacock arranged for us to interview Michael Latham as a potential producer. Unlike the producers we had interviewed in the United States, both the Video Arts trio and [[Michael Latham]] were sympathetic to our philosophy and enthusiastic about producing a documentary to present it. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475-6</ref></blockquote>
-''Free to Choose'' eventually became a ten part television documentary. The [[BBC]] bought the rights to six of the programmes, <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.499</ref> five of which were broadcast with studio discussions with [[Milton Friedman]] hosted by the neoliberal economist and journalist [[Peter Jay]]. According to the BBC Motion Gallery the title of each segment and the date of its broadcast were as follows: ''Free to Choose:1:Power of Markets'' (16 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:2: The Tyranny of Control'' (23 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:3:Anatomy of Crisis'' (1 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:4: Created Equal'' (8 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:5: Who Protects the Consumer?'' (15 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:6: How to Cure Inflation'' (22 March 1980). All but ''Power of Markets'' were broadcast with a were broadcast with discussions hosted by [[Peter Jay|Jay]].
+''Free to Choose'' eventually became a ten part television documentary. In their book ''Free to Choose: A Personal Statement'', Milton and Rose Friedman recalled that:
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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[T]o translate the excellent scholarship of think tanks and independent scholars into engaging material containing easily remembered stories, phrases and images. These will become life-long reminders; think of them as awareness triggers, of the tug of war between freedom and government and the constant need to rein in the latter to preserve the former. This will be particularly productive with young people whose “natural passion for change and freedom” can become a lifelong habit of seeing the many ways government  stands in the way of their aspirations.<ref>[[Media:Freetochoosemedia.pdf|PDF Copy]] of http://www.freetochoosemedia.org, created 22 October 2009</ref></blockquote>
-After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and [[Bob Chitester|Chitester]]turned to Video Arts Television to produce the film. [[Antony Jay]] has written: 'I am a Friedmanite. My company produced Milton Friedman’s 10 part documentary series ''[[Free to Choose]]'' back in 1979, but I was a convert to market economics long before that. In fact, that was why my company got the gig.' <ref>Antony Jay, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/687_ProductPreviewFile.pdf How to save the BBC]’, 4 July 2008; p.9</ref> In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls the first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
+After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and [[Bob Chitester|Chitester]] turned to Video Arts Television to produce the film. [[Antony Jay]] has written: 'I am a Friedmanite. My company produced Milton Friedman’s 10 part documentary series ''[[Free to Choose]]'' back in 1979, but I was a convert to market economics long before that. In fact, that was why my company got the gig.' <ref>Antony Jay, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/687_ProductPreviewFile.pdf How to save the BBC]’, 4 July 2008; p.9</ref> In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls the first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[[Bob Chitester|Bob]] [Chitester] had been planning a trip to London to talk to the BBC about its interest in acquiring the program when it was completed and to talk with possible producers... By far the most important interview was with [[Antony Jay]], recommended by [[Ralph Harris]] [Director General of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]] as “a Friedman fan” (initially from reading my [1973] ''Playboy'' interview). Jay was a partner in Video Arts, a television production company formed by ex-BBC employees who had wanted to escape bureaucracy… [Later] Bob and I took off on September 20 for London, where we had extensive discussions with [[Antony Jay]] and two of his partners who were to be the most closely involved in the production of ''[[Free to Choose]]'', [[Michael Peacock]], managing director and [[Robert Reid]], chairman. In addition, Peacock arranged for us to interview Michael Latham as a potential producer. Unlike the producers we had interviewed in the United States, both the Video Arts trio and [[Michael Latham]] were sympathetic to our philosophy and enthusiastic about producing a documentary to present it. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475-6</ref></blockquote>

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[T]o translate the excellent scholarship of think tanks and independent scholars into engaging material containing easily remembered stories, phrases and images. These will become life-long reminders; think of them as awareness triggers, of the tug of war between freedom and government and the constant need to rein in the latter to preserve the former. This will be particularly productive with young people whose “natural passion for change and freedom” can become a lifelong habit of seeing the many ways government  stands in the way of their aspirations.<ref>[[Media:Freetochoosemedia.pdf|PDF Copy]] of http://www.freetochoosemedia.org, created 22 October 2009</ref></blockquote>
-After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and [[Bob Chitester|Chitester]]turned to Video Arts Television to produce the film. In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls the first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
+After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and [[Bob Chitester|Chitester]]turned to Video Arts Television to produce the film. [[Antony Jay]] has written: 'I am a Friedmanite. My company produced Milton Friedman’s 10 part documentary series ''[[Free to Choose]]'' back in 1979, but I was a convert to market economics long before that. In fact, that was why my company got the gig.' <ref>Antony Jay, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/687_ProductPreviewFile.pdf How to save the BBC]’, 4 July 2008; p.9</ref> In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls the first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[[Bob Chitester|Bob]] [Chitester] had been planning a trip to London to talk to the BBC about its interest in acquiring the program when it was completed and to talk with possible producers... By far the most important interview was with [[Antony Jay]], recommended by [[Ralph Harris]] [Director General of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]] as “a Friedman fan” (initially from reading my [1973] ''Playboy'' interview). Jay was a partner in Video Arts, a television production company formed by ex-BBC employees who had wanted to escape bureaucracy… [Later] Bob and I took off on September 20 for London, where we had extensive discussions with [[Antony Jay]] and two of his partners who were to be the most closely involved in the production of ''[[Free to Choose]]'', [[Michael Peacock]], managing director and [[Robert Reid]], chairman. In addition, Peacock arranged for us to interview Michael Latham as a potential producer. Unlike the producers we had interviewed in the United States, both the Video Arts trio and [[Michael Latham]] were sympathetic to our philosophy and enthusiastic about producing a documentary to present it. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475-6</ref></blockquote>

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 '''Video Arts Television Ltd''' was a television production company which produced a number of films promoting neoliberal ideology. Most notable of these was the ten part documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'' promoting the views of [[Milton Friedman]], but it also produced a three part film called ''Heyek - His Life and Thoughts'', broadcast in 1985.
-Video Arts Televisionwas incorporated in 1978, and was then affiliated with Video Arts, a training film company owned by comedian John Cleese. In 1992 the company was acquired by Media Ventures International and became Pavillion International.
+Video Arts Television was incorporated in 1978, and was then affiliated with Video Arts, a training film company owned by comedian John Cleese. In 1992 the company was acquired by Media Ventures International and became Pavillion International.
 ==''Free to Choose''==

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[T]o translate the excellent scholarship of think tanks and independent scholars into engaging material containing easily remembered stories, phrases and images. These will become life-long reminders; think of them as awareness triggers, of the tug of war between freedom and government and the constant need to rein in the latter to preserve the former. This will be particularly productive with young people whose “natural passion for change and freedom” can become a lifelong habit of seeing the many ways government  stands in the way of their aspirations.<ref>[[Media:Freetochoosemedia.pdf|PDF Copy]] of http://www.freetochoosemedia.org, created 22 October 2009</ref></blockquote>
-After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman]] and his allies turned to Video Arts Television to produce a film promoting his neoliberal programme. In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls his first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
+After failing to find a production company in the United States sufficiently committed to the neoliberal philosophy, [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and [[Bob Chitester|Chitester]]turned to Video Arts Television to produce a film promoting his neoliberal programme. In his autobiography [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] recalls his first meetings with Video Arts Television to discuss their future production of the 1980 neoliberal polemical documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'':
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[[Bob Chitester|Bob]] [Chitester] had been planning a trip to London to talk to the BBC about its interest in acquiring the program when it was completed and to talk with possible producers... By far the most important interview was with [[Antony Jay]], recommended by [[Ralph Harris]] [Director General of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]] as “a Friedman fan” (initially from reading my ''Playboy'' interview). Jay was a partner in Video Arts, a television production company formed by ex-BBC employees who had wanted to escape bureaucracy… [Later] Bob and I took off on September 20 for London, where we had extensive discussions with [[Antony Jay]] and two of his partners who were to be the most closely involved in the production of ''[[Free to Choose]]'', [[Michael Peacock]], managing director and [[Robert Reid]], chairman. In addition, Peacock arranged for us to interview Michael Latham as a potential producer. Unlike the producers we had interviewed in the United States, both the Video Arts trio and [[Michael Latham]] were sympathetic to our philosophy and enthusiastic about producing a documentary to present it. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475-6</ref></blockquote>

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">"Interesting that Britain, the fatherland of the welfare state and the home of a major avowedly socialist party, should be where we would find producers sympathetic to free markets.” – [[Milton Friedman]] <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475</ref></blockquote>
-'''Video Arts Television Ltd''' was a television production company which produced a number of documentary films promoting neoliberal ideology. It was incorporated in 1978, and was then affiliated with Video Arts, a training film company owned by comedian John Cleese. In 1992 the company was acquired by Media Ventures International and became Pavillion International.
+'''Video Arts Television Ltd''' was a television production company which produced a number of films promoting neoliberal ideology. Most notable of these was the ten part documentary ''[[Free to Choose]]'' promoting the views of [[Milton Friedman]], but it also produced a three part film called ''Heyek - His Life and Thoughts'', broadcast in 1985.
 ==''Free to Choose''==