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M-375 .•.. "The Wizard of Osrin"
THE WIZARD OF OSRIN
SEGMENT A
Fade in "A" :00 "C" SOUND FULL/MUSIC--I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE Osrin ••• Drive Shot
Start Slow Diss. to "B" :17 Roll
Finish Diss. to "B" Full :23 Pull Out from Nixon in Cartoon--l'd Like To Teach The World To Sing •••
Cuts to Osrin in Car
WORLD TO SING
:44 "C" SOUND CONT'D (LOW, MAY NEED BOOSTING)
"NBC Radio News on the hour, Lee McCartney re-
porting." The 20 day old British Dock strike is over.
Representatives of Britains 40,000 dock workers have
voted to accept an agreement Wlhich safeguards the
jobs of the longshoremen.
1:01 ,"C" s d uND CONT'D~RING IN "A'; SOUND UNDER
NARRATION:
To laugh at the news is no easy job. This man does
it as a profession from 8 in the morning· until 5 in
the evening, 5 days a week. He's a professional
journalist of sorts who is in the enviable position of
having the general public laugh with him every morning
M-375 .••. Seg. A
1:19
Page 2
over coffee, or on their way to work. It's no easy task
'A' SOUND OUT /MUSIC UNDER-ON t" TAPE
to combine the wit of an Art Buchwald and the candor of a
Bill Buchley into one graphic essay that says it all, but
with the brush and the ink well, Ray Osrin, Editorial
Cartoonist, does just that, 6 days a week on the Editorial
page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. What makes a man
want to devote his life to drawing funny-pictures of
political types? Well, as Ray Osrin put it: ''I had
wanted to be a cartoonist since my mother dropped me
on my head at age 2 in Brooklyn, New York. I'm not
sure what I would have been had she dropped me on my
head in, say •..•• steubenville?"
RAY OSRIN:
Well, as close as I can pinpoint it, I've been drawing
cartoons since I was about five years old in Brooklyn
and my parents told me that they have soom cartoons
that I drew of Adolph Hitler in 1938 and 39. I always
liked drawing and I would copy all the comic strip
artists of that day and really felt that I would be
nothing else but a cartoonist in some form. I wanted
to be a syndicated cartoonist - have a comic strip of
my own. But as time goes on and you jump around
from one job to another in the field, I settled on
editorial cartooning and I am very happy with it. I
M-375 •••. Seg. A Page 3
think its a very satisfying field. Actually, cartoonists
are very fortunate people, that's cause they can get
a lot off their chest very easy and go horne at night
and feel good. And most of us have to keep it bottled
up inside, but I can say something in a cartoon and
uh, I hope a lot of people agree with me and those
that don't, might at lease see another side of the
situation that they hadn't noticed before. I think all
people do foolish things and make mistakes, whether
they're liberals or conservatives, or Republican or
Democrat, and I think the cartoonist's role is to
point out and have fun with it and show that these
people are human beings and that they're not gods
and that in this country we have the freedom to poke
fun and uh, jest with the issues of the day and by
so doing, get the point across to the public in a
less painful way, than a hard lesson or some very
brutal attack. I try not to, not to use the clever
if I can help it - but from all this and having a desire
from something you see in the paper you want to
MATTE: TITLE: speak out about it. Comes the process of thinking "THE WIZARD OF OSRIN"
of a cartoon that fits the gripe that you have, that
you can register in cartoon form.
M-375 .••• Seg. A
Osrin on Cam. intercut with Cartoon drawing of Nixon poking nose in Dem. H.Q.
MATTE: MONTAGE
Fade to Black
3:36
Page 4
MUSIC OUT/"C" SOUND CONT'D FULL/SOF (Osrin) AND MUSIC--I'VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL SWITCH-I ED ONBUCK
''Yea .... that's right ••.. Nixon's big nose poking into
something might be a very good cartoon. You might
have given me an idea there."
4:13 ALL SOUND OUT
END SEGMENT A
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Fade in "A" Roll Osrin at Drawingboard racking brain for ideas
SEGMENT B
:00 "C II SOUND FULL/MUSIC
:21 "C" SOUND UNDER/"B" SOUND FULL-ADAIR
NARRATION:
The editorial cartoonist's job is looked at by many as
somewhat of a glamour job ..... but, as Ray Osrin would
tell you himself, •••• "It is not. " Osrin, like many
other 'work-a-day' people, goes through many prosaic
steps, partictilarly when it comes to battering out ideas
which are meaningful and funny!
:39 "B" SOUND CONT'D FULL/"C" SOUND UNDER
OSRIN:
.••• One thing about this business that makes it more
of a challenge is that comedians of all kinds, writers,
ah, late nite talk show masters of ceremonies,
stand -up comics all have writers .... ah, who help
them out. Editorial cartoonists are the only group
I can think of that doesn't. And ah, we're supposed
to be humorous and witty •••• everyday.
1 :01 "B" SOUND CONT'D FULL/FADE "C" SOUND OUT
Osrin on Camera The amount of news that appears in the paper each looking thru newspaper
day is important too. Sometimes there's not much.
~-375 .... Seg. B Page 6
Well, the biggest stories are probably the continuing
little battle between Shriver and Rogers and the Nixon
Administration and the Democrats trying to get in the
White House. The bombing is a continual thing and
it seems to be growing bigger everyday. The criticism
of the bombing in Vietnam, and I did touch on that in
this morning's cartoon, if you remember. So we try
not to touch on the same subject two days in a row,
unless it becomes so big that it can't be avoided and
then we '11 do it as many times as we have to. But
I think right now I'm going to be concerned with the
upcoming convention and other than that, I don't see
anything .••••
2 :03t "C" SOUND FULL/"B" SOUND UNDER
OSRIN:
Every artist is influenced by some other artists.
2:07 "B" SOUND OUT/"C" CONT'D FULL
People are always talking about you shouldn't copy
and you should be original, yet I really doubt if
anybody is or if there ever was anything that was
totally original. I was strongly influenced by many
artists and other cartoonists are too. So, today, I'm
influenced by Oliphant and Malden and Herblock, there's
a fellow named Wright on a Miami newspaper. However
M-375 .••. Seg. B
Starts with fast cuts of finished cartoons and cut to Osrin sketching Kissinger Saigon puppet cartoon
Page 7
nobody can help you or influence you with your ideas
and that's really the name of the game and uh, your
art work once it reaches a professional level of
craftsmanship and draftsmanship is second to the idea.
The idea is the whole thing and that's where the hard
work is and I really can't answer where it comes
from - Malden says he takes a hot bath and gets ideas,
some of my friends sleep with a pencil and paper
beside their bed and wake up at 2 o'clock in the
morning and get a gem of an idea - that never happens
to me. It always happens in here, in this room, and
with just about two or three hours before my self-
i.Ipposed deadline, and just where the ideas come from,
I don't know. Gratefully they always show up and
they're there. Sometimes the best ideas will just pop.
3 :23 "C" SOUND CONT'D-MUSIC-WE'RE GONNA GET TOGETHER
4:18 "B" SOUND FULL/ "C" SOUND UNDER
NARRATION:
The editorial cartoonist enjoys the privilege of intimacy
with every cartoon caricature he creates. It is a
flowing freedom that he feels when he can whimsically
create, at will, some outstanding feature or physical
characteristics associated with a well known political
M-375 ..•. Seg. B Page 8
figure. Osrin, like most of his contemporaries, has
his favorites.
4:38 "B" SOUND CONT'D FULL-OSRIN/FADE "C" SOUND OUT
Cuts to sketching From the standpoint of ease of caricature, everybody of Nixon Cartoon.·--Cut back and forth is fond of Richard Nixon and I guess that most editorial to Osrin on camera to cartoons and cartoonists would hope that he makes it again. The sketching , etc.
same thing was true of LBJ, that was not true of JFK,
JFK was very difficult to do, if you're a handsome fellow,
you're very tough on cartoonists. I think McGovern is
giving cartoonists a little bit of trouble. But, not as
much as JFK did. And LBJ was fabulous. He was,
hated to see him go, just Iike cartoonists hated to see
Nikita Kruschev go, we '11 be very sad when Mao Tung
is no longer in the picture. He was excellent to do.
Ho Chi Min was a great fellow to caricature. And
Charles De Gaulle, all the great ones, are passing
quickly. A fellow like Breenev and Kosygin are not
quite as colorful, not quite as interesting for us.
Mel Laird? is a good one to do. My favorite, my
personal favorite, was the late Everett Dirkson.
Dirkson was a delight to draw and to have fun with
and there's not many of those great \ characters left.
It's too soon for me to tell yet, how Shriver is going
to work out, but he's a good looking man and those
are the tough ones again. Spiro Agnew was a lot of
M-375 .••. Seg. B
Osrin drawing Henry the Aide
Inking in the cartoon "The Six Lives of Henry the Aide"
Fade to Black
Page 9
fun, I almost left out one of the all time greats. Spiro
Agnew is marvelous to do and he has requested some
cartoons that he's seen. Showing that he has more of
a sense of humor than some people give him credit for.
He's wonderful, I always hope that on a slow day, S. P.
will say something. Cause usually it's worthwhile
commenting on. • • • Kissinger is fun. He's a great,
physically he's good to draw. He's got a lot of char-
acter. The things that cartoonists can cling to. I
have one lurking back here, it was a personal favorite
of mine and it includes H. Kissinger and his many jobs
in the Nixon Administration from: courier to confidante,
foreign affairs strategist, travel
6:53 BRING IN "C" SOUND UNDER/MUSIC
arranger, private negotiator, foreign policy formulator
And I call it "The Six Lives of Henry the Aide", instead
of "The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth". That's kind
of a pun.
7:08 "B" SOUND OUT/"C" SOUND FULL-MUSIC
8:51 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
END SEGMENT B
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Fade in "A" Roll Osrin at Editorial Conference.
SEGMENT C
:00 "B" SOUND UNDER
:01 "C" SOUND FULL/"B" SOUND UNDER
NARRATION:
At 11:00 sharp every morning Ray Osrin takes time
away from his drawing board to attend a conference
with the editorial writers. Osrin may appear to be
taking a much needed break, but in actuality he is
absorbing all of the latest news and editorial policy
of the day. Depending on what is discussed, the
conference may, or may not be helpful in his constant
quest for cartoon ideas.
OSRIN:
And I sit in on this session and listen to what these
men have to say. They're very learned and very
knowledgable in their fields and frequently just listening
to them talk, discuss a situation will inadvertently
spark a thought in my head and I'll jot that down or try
and memorize it and go from there. My job in the
editorial conference really is to be an observer. I
don't set policy, these fellows do after conferring with
Tom Vale himself, how he thinks about things and
happily the Plain Dealer's philosophy and mine usually
jibes so there's no problem there and then it's, after
~-375 •••• Seg. C Pagell
that conference
1 :02 "B" SOUND GOES OUT/"C" CONT'D FULL
it's back to the drawing board and rehashing what I've
heard these fellows say, and then just staring at a
Use in-office shots of blank piece of paper and trying to put it all together Osrin at Drawingboard OTS from Osrin to and sift out from all that which might be the most Drawing Sketch of Drago1,1_, et<h__ topical thing to work on the following day.
1 :1.7 "B" SOUND UNDER (PRESENCE)/"C" CONT'D FULL
Barnard in Osrin 's By 2 :30 in the afte moon, I should have anywhere from office looking over sketches. 3 to 5 comprehensive roughs, drafted out to show to
the chief editorial writer, William C. Barnard and he
will pursue them and together with me in discussing
them will try to amive at which one is simply the best.
Bill is in no way a censor, he's very easy to work with.
He himself has a great sense of humor and isn't
squeamish about a lot of things, so there's no problem
there, it's just a matter of which one we think is the
best cartoon.
1 :51 "B" SOUND GOES OUT / "C" SOUND C ONT 'D FULL
OSRIN:
There's a mixture here. I liked Todds Analogy, I
don't know if it worked, of St. George .•.. I'm also
holding If I Were a Rich ~an, which you told me to
hold for possible weekend use.
~-375 .... Seg. C
Fade to Black
Fade in "A" Roll
Fade up on Osrin walking thru city room and up to engraving to deliver his cartoon. . •
Page 12
0. K. , so you wanta go with that one.
BARNARD:
UM hm ...•.
OSRIN:
You think a sword is better than a - - -
That's the only thing I was : torn between -
BARNARD:
Probably his lance - - -
OSRIN:
0. K. Good idea. . • .
.All righty !
4:16 FADE "C" SOUND OUT
4:18 "C" SOUND FULL/"B" SOUND UNDER
NARRATION:
Much to his great pleasure, Ray Osrin 's cartoons have
shown up far and wide in such publications as the New
York Times, Newsday, National Observer, The Los
Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Time
and Newsweek Magazines. He often has had the
prestigious opportunity of pinch-hitting for the Dean
of American Cartoonists, "Herblock" of the Washington
Post. With the increase in exposure comes too the
increase in Public reaction. • • both critical and compli
mentary. Osrin welcomes response to his cartoons .• ,
M-375 .... Seg. C Page 13
he knows then that someone out there cares - - -
4:52 "B" SOUND OUT/"C" SOUND CONT'D FULL
My wife is my severist critic and ah, mentor. And
ah, however when she really likes something she lets
me know that as well. But she's the first to let me
know when she doesn't like something. If she see's
something that she particularly likes , she will ask me
not to present it to anybody ah, except perhaps the
subject himself like in the case of this morning's
cartoon it was Henry Kissinger ah, was one of her
favorites it proved to be and unless Mr.Kissinger
asks for it I have orders not to give that one away.
She wants to frame that and hang it up herself.
(slight pause)
Gripes and compliments we always like to hear gripes
as well as compliments, it shows people are paying
attention and listening and you're never going to please
everybody so usually there's fifty percent of your
readership out there that's going to disagree with
what you say, when you take a stand. But uh, I do
get my share of complaints and frequently it's an
accusation of being disrepectful and why should we
make fun of the President of the United states. And
I reply with the answer wherever there is humor to be
found or a piffy point to be made, I will try to make it.
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Series of Osrin cartoons
Fade to Black
Fast Fade Up on "A" Roll
Page 14
And I think if they watch carefully day in and day out
they will see that everybody gets a shot at being picked
on, pretty fair and square. A lot of people have the
philosophy that whoever the President is, he should
never be attacked. He should be revered and treated
almost like a god. And I try to point out whenever I
get complaints like this in the form of a letter or phon~
call, that this is what separates the U.S. from almost
every other country in the world, particularly the
Soviet Union. That we don't r evere, that we r,espect,
when respect is called for by the leaders of our country.
But when things do go wrong we're all free to points
things out. And I hope that we continue to have this
sort of freedom. Frequently these men are not as
sensitive as the public is. The public will feel that
we have insulted them and will accuse us of using bad
taste and being disrespectful. But the subjects themselves
will frequently themselves ask for the cartoons.
7:02 "C" SOUND CONT'D FULL-~USIC-:-IT TAKES PEOPLE LIKE YOU
8:47 "C" SOUND ~ GOES OUT BY ITSELF
8:49
8:50 "C" SOUND FULL-ADAffi/"B" SOUND UNDER-,MUSIC
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NARRATION:
One of the rare qualities found in any individual today
is the ability to laugh at one's self. Perhaps this
is why Ray Osrin is so successful at what he does- -
he finds a bit of humor from within himself, and applies
that to the world around him. We might all do ourselves
, t~a! Javor once in a while; just merely throw off the
shakles of depression. • • and Laugh!
9:12 ''C" SOUND OUT/MUSIC CONT'D UNDER
9:16 "C" SOUND FULL/MUSIC CONT'D UNDER
I think most American cartoonists choose that way ,
they use humor as the guise to get across a very
powerful point . Humor can explode pomposity and
illustrate hypocrisy and make it more palatable.
9:31 "C" SOUND OUT /"B" SOUND FULL/MUSIC
MATTE CREDITS:
1. Title: Wizard of Osrin 2. Narrator: D. Adair 3. W-P: H. Schwartz 4. Unit Director/Cameraman:
D. Goulden Film Editor Dick Mrzena
5. T.D. studio Sound Mixer
6. Co-op 7. Montage/MRA/Public Affairs
(FAST) Fade to Black 11:06 ALL SOUND OUT
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END SEG~ENT C
END OF SHOW
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