First Person (2000 TV series)
First Person is an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to criminals, and ran for two seasons, in 2000–2001.
Interviews were conducted with "The Interrotron", a device similar to a
The name "Interrotron" was coined by Morris's wife, who, according to Morris, "liked the name because it combined two important concepts — terror and interview."[2]
The first episode of the series was dedicated to debtor's advocate Andrew Capoccia, wherein he laid out his philosophy on debt reduction. Less than two days after the episode aired, on February 18, 2000, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Rochester court announced the provisional suspension of all pending cases filed by Andrew Capoccia's firm.[3] Cappocia was subsequently tried, convicted of fraud and imprisoned.
Episodes
Season 1
- "Stairway to Heaven" — autisticcollege professor and expert on humane cattle slaughter techniques
- "The Killer Inside Me" — Sondra London, American true crime author.
- "I Dismember Mama" — cryogenic immortality
- "The Stalker" — Bill Kinsley, employer and victim of the disgruntled postal worker Thomas McIlvane
- "The Parrot" — Jane Gill, victim of a murder with a possible avian eyewitness
- "Eyeball to Eyeball" — Clyde Roper, authority on the giant squid
- "Smiling in a Jar" — Gretchen Worden, director of the Mütter Museum of medical oddities in Philadelphia
- "In the Kingdom of the Unabomber" — Gary Greenberg, Unabomber pen paland would-be biographer
- "Mr. Debt" — Andrew Capoccia, lawyer for credit-card debtors (since disbarred and convicted)
- "You're Soaking In It" — Joan Dougherty, crime scene cleaner
- "The Little Gray Man" — CIAoperative and master of disguise
Season 2
- "Harvesting Me" — documentary We Live in Public
- "The Smartest Man in the World" — bouncerwith the alleged world's highest IQ
- "The Only Truth" — Murray Richman, lawyer to New York mobsters
- "One in a Million Trillion" — Rick Rosner, professional high school student and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? contestant
- "Mr. Personality" — Dr. Michael Stone,
- "Leaving the Earth" — DC-10pilot and hero
References
- ^ "Interviews: Errol Morris" "[1] Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "THE FOG OF WAR: 13 Questions and Answers on the Filmmaking of Errol Morris by Errol Morris", FLM Magazine Winter 2004 "[2] Archived 2010-10-14 at the Wayback Machine"
- hdl:2268.2/18953. Retrieved 2023-09-15.