New Hampshire Crossroads; Andy Potok
- Series
- New Hampshire Crossroads
- Segment
- Andy Potok
- Producing Organization
- New Hampshire Public Television
- Contributing Organization
- New Hampshire Public Television (Durham, New Hampshire)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/298-13mw6s85
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- Description
- Description
- Vermont ETV profile of Andy Potok, an artist, who, despite developing an inherited eye disease which slowly robs him of his sight, found hope and wrote a book entitled "Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of and Artist Going Blind". visit Andy Potok, a painter who, after losing his vision, turned his creative energies in another direction. As a young man, Andy's paintings were promising and his future as an artist was bright. That is, until he was stricken with a sight-robbing eye disease. But, that is not where the story of Andy Potok the artist ends. Mark Greenburg has this story of Andy's inspiring comeback. Since the piece was filmed, Andy's book, "Ordinary Daylight" has been the subject of much attention and has even been considered as a possible movie script. A remarkable comeback indeed.??(from show #116)
- Description
- no bars and tone, hits, dropouts, jumpy video, Vermont ETV
- Asset type
- Segment
- Subjects
- a; a light in the darkness; acceptance; activity; adapt; addiction; An; Andy; Andy Potok; Artist; Bee; bee sting cure; bigger; blind; blindness; brighter; cane; circuit; closed; closed circuit television; creative; creative activity; cure; Damaged; darkness; daylight; Daylight:; demons; dependence; disease; Doctor; engrossing; experience; eye; eye disease; eye doctor; goal; going; Hope; imagination; in; inherited; inherited eye disease; Journal; larger; lifetime; light; losses; memory; morning; normalcy; of; office; ordinary; Ordinary Daylight: a Portrait of an Artist Going Blind; pigmentosa; Plainfield; pleasure; portrait; Potok; read; Reading; rehabilitation; retinitis; retinitis pigmentosa; revulsion; Rob; RP; self-pity; settle; shatter; sight; skills; skills of blindness; sting; style; Television; the; type; type writer; visual; visual losses; vocation; voice; White; white cane; writer
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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: Chance Evans, Alan Campbell, Mark Greenberg
Producing Organization: New Hampshire Public Television
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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New Hampshire Public Television
Identifier: LPA-262, Cut 8 (Tape Number)
Format: U-matic
Duration: 00:09:00
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New Hampshire Public Television
Identifier: (unknown)
Color: RGB
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- Citations
- Chicago: “New Hampshire Crossroads; Andy Potok,” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-13mw6s85.
- MLA: “New Hampshire Crossroads; Andy Potok.” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-13mw6s85>.
- APA: New Hampshire Crossroads; Andy Potok. Boston, MA: New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-13mw6s85