It was April 1, 1968 at 1:25pm in the afternoon. Peggy Fleming arrived at our home for a filmed interview to be used in a motion picture I was producing. It was her return home to Colorado Springs after winning the gold medal. Her available time was short as we quickly seated her in a chair in the living room. We quickly rolled the camera and sound as my mother Janet sat off camera and asked a series of four questions.
We were shooting on film, ofcourse. Videotape was out of the question. For camera buffs, it was an Auricon Pro 600 with Angenieux lens. Sound was recorded on magnetic film. The filmstock was
Ektachrome Commercial 7255. This was a very special time for me. It was my first film out of
college and Peggy Fleming had become a celebrity.
At exactly 1:38pm we said a cordial goodbye to Peggy and she caught a plane to New York to sign a contract with an agent and appear on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
The final film was never printed to the quality of the original. Since that time all footage has been
remastered and transferred to digital video with remarkable results. Segments have been shown on the Lifetime network. To this day, Peggy Fleming probably does not remember those 13 minutes that were so important to me. I am deeply indebted to her mother Doris for helping me
with the details of scheduling the interview.
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