by webmaster@goculturecube.com | Sep 9, 2021 | Newsletter Stories
Bridging the gap from remote learning to the return to in-classroom learning is an unprecedented challenge right now, and bringing together our volunteers, employees, and cohorts, MPTF’s Engagement team led by Director Fredda Johnson is proud to join the coalition...
by Nathaniel Thompson | Sep 16, 2021 | Featured, History, Newsletter Stories
Though we’re known today as the Motion Picture and Television Fund, in the beginning we were the Motion Picture Relief Fund – evolving with the industry itself through revolutions like color TV, analog to digital, and streaming. During our 50th year on July 27, 1971,...
by Nathaniel Thompson | Jun 25, 2021 | Newsletter Stories
For 100 years, our Hollywood friends have discovered their personal paths to MPTF. One special case is Lori Weintraub, who first visited the Motion Picture Home campus as a child with her father, legendary producer Sy Weintraub. Lori’s distinguished career evolved...
by Nathaniel Thompson | May 29, 2021 | Newsletter Stories, Wasserman Campus
For the MPTF campus, the safety of its residents and staff has long been held as a sacred duty. Safety got a little more complicated on March 9th, 2020, when new Covid-19 protocols were added to the line of duty: health questions, a temperature check, and for those...
by Nathaniel Thompson | Apr 20, 2021 | Newsletter Stories, History, Wasserman Campus
Jean Hersholt was an actor and humanitarian, President of MPTF for 18 years, and the man who raised the money to buy and begin to develop the MPTF campus in 1941. He is also the namesake for the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award first bestowed in 1957. Before...
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