ULV Productions Benefits Students

Johnny Walsh
Staff Writer

With traditional means of sup­porting private education changing very rapidly, the University of La Verne has recently come up with an innovative way to help underwrite its cost.

ULV Productions, Inc., was incor­porated in July 1981, after a one­ and-a-half year trial period. It was set up to give students a hands-on experience with television produc­tion techniques. This production company enables students major­ing in television production to receive internships in the field, thereby giving them a chance to meet people and work with the necessary equipment in the field to establish real connections.

“This is an attempt to bridge the gap between academic concerns and the larger community of bus­iness and technology,” said Bill McGarigle, executive producer of ULV Productions, Inc. McGarigle has been instrumental in developing ULV Productions, an independent production company of the Universi­ty of La Verne.

ULV Productions is already pay­ing for itself. In its first four months in existence, the company has earned as much as the Television Department did in the past two years.

ULV Productions has recently made its first release entitled, “Redevelopment – A Tale of New Cities,” narrated by Steve Allen, which will air on KCET-TV Channel 28, Tuesday, Dec. 1. It  has also just completed a half hour doc­umentary on wind energy for the Na­tional Energy Research and Infor­mation Institute, as part of a pro­ posed nationwide science cur­riculum for secondary schools.

ULV Productions’ clients include NBC’s “On Campus,” Dave Bell and Associates; City of Commerce Redevelopment Agency; the Ascot Raceway; and the Office of the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, just to name a few. Those who were most instrumen­tal in getting ULV Productions, Inc., off the ground are Adrian Joseph, producer-writer; Ruby Montano, pro­duction coordinator; Susan Hos­kins, production coordinator; and Koslan Zoller, production consul­tant.

ULV Productions, Inc., expects its first interns to enter the program during the 1982 spring semester.

Johnny Walsh

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