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Paul Oppenheim, C.A.S. Born September 9th, 1942 in San Francisco, is a sound mixer for film and television. He apprenticed at KQED in San Francisco while attending San Francisco State College, graduating with a BA in Film and Television in 1971. He began mixing sound in 1965. In 1966, with director John Korty, Paul began with feature films, Funnyman (1967) and Riverrun (1970). New Wave director Agnes Varda made Oncle Yanco (1967) & The Black Panthers (1968) with Paul. He has worked with Hiro Narita, Kurt Braun, Jon Else, Stephen Lighthill, the Maysles brothers, and Francis Ford Coppola. In 1968 he started doing sound for television. Student unrest at the University of California, and San Francisco State College, the opposition to the war in Vietnam, and kidnapping of Patty Hearst were big stories on the evening news. In 1969 he began working for CBS News 60 Minutes, and traveled the world with CBS and NBC, from Amchitka to Rio de Janeiro, and Majuro to the Khyber Pass. Mr. Oppenheim has been privileged to work with Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Harry Reasoner, Charles Kuralt, Diane Sawyer, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace. In 1983 he received a George Foster Peabody Award for Lenell Geter’s in Jail on 60 Minutes. In 1993 he was the only soundman to attend the 25th Anniversary of 60 Minutes held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1989 Safer returned to Vietnam to film a segment for 60 Minutes and write a book: Flashbacks, and Mr. Oppenheim was invited to work with him again. He has mixed sound for ABC News, NBC News, BBC, and the National Film Board of Canada, Channel 9 Australia, PBS, WGBH, KQED, and KCET. In 1986 Mr. Oppenheim began working for Paramount Pictures, Entertainment Tonight. He has worked consistently for CBS News and ET and became a staff mixer for ET in 1999. He is an avid classical musician and plays the double bass.

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The Cinema Audio Society IATSE Local 695 directory (International Sound Technicians) Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) Morley Safer FLASHBACKS 1990 Random HouseSparks&amp;speed (talk) 22:26, 3 January 2009 (UTC)