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Lincoln Program Wins Silver Telly Award
Monday, July 06, 2009
WILL-TV has won the national Telly Awards’ highest honor, the Silver Telly, for its production Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency, which aired on WILL-TV and other PBS stations across the country last February during Lincoln’s Bicentennial.
Nearly 11,000 entries from around the world competed in the 30th Annual Telly Awards. Entries were evaluated to recognize distinction in creative work. Entries don’t compete against each other — rather entries are judged against a high standard of merit. Fewer than 10 percent of entries are chosen as winners of the Silver Telly. "Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency" tells the story of the cases Lincoln tried and people he met during formative years as a lawyer on Illinois’ Eighth Judicial Circuit. Reenactments of Lincoln riding the dusty circuit, telling stories with friends and trying cases in court help viewers envision his experiences. Experts, including Doris Kearns Goodwin and Orville Vernon Burton, describe how the circuit built the skills Lincoln used as president. His experiences from 1837 to 1860 on muddy roads, in homes of friends and in courtrooms on the circuit shaped the views and honed the skills that guided him when he became president. Alison Davis Wood produced the program, with Tim Hartin as co-producer and director; Colin Hartin as editor; and Steve Drake and Henry Szujewski as executive producers. Guy Fraker served as subject matter expert for the program.
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