{"id":2122,"date":"2024-11-15T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.przyborski.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:18:47","slug":"the-ramp-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.przyborski.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"The Ramp of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ramp of Hope (1991)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfUib9KQRbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I directed and photographed many TV campaigns for Cleveland based ad agencies. The most talented agency creative director I worked with was Alan Glazen. His agency was given an assignment to produce a TV spot and long-form video for Action Technology (now part of the Invacare Corp.) The company manufactures specialized, wheelchairs that are used throughout the world by athletes. The video was produced to be played at a major wheelchair athletics competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) had just been signed into law, but many public buildings weren&#8217;t &#8220;wheelchair friendly.&#8221; Alan Glazen created an amazing script that was designed to let the world know, that people who have a physical disability, don&#8217;t want your pity or sympathy. They just want you to get out of their way and treat them as you would anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan and I filmed the intense, stylized action scenes of the wheelchair athletes in an old basketball gymnasium at Cleveland&#8217;s Case Western Reserve University. I shot all the scenes with my Arriflex 35BL4 equipped with Zeiss super-speed lenses. During film-to-tape transfer in Nashville, the clipped color and accentuated grain was added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;news event&#8221; scenes were filmed the following day in the lobby of an old downtown Cleveland office building. After transferring the 35mm negative to 1&#8243; analog tape, I edited part of the project in Pittsburgh, with Glazen handling the final edit, original music and audio mix at a Cleveland facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As a footnote: Some years ago, Alan Glazen sold his ad agency and today is the successful owner of multiple restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I directed and photographed many TV campaigns for Cleveland based ad agencies. The most talented agency creative director I worked with was Alan Glazen. 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