[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 45 (Thursday, March 9, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING ALVIN PERLMUTTER

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                          HON. JERROLD NADLER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 9, 2023

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of my esteemed 
constituents, Alvin Perlmutter.
  Alvin is the Executive Producer and Director of the Independent 
Production Fund, and President of Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and has 
produced highly acclaimed informational programming for over fifty 
years. Prior to forming his own company, Mr. Perlmutter served as NBC 
News Vice President where he was responsible for all network 
documentaries and news magazine programs, and earlier as Director of 
Public Affairs Programming and Program Manager of WNBC-TV, New York.
  Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, he attended Colgate 
University and graduated from Syracuse University. Early in his career 
he was a radio newscaster before serving as Radio-TV Officer in the 
U.S. 1st Army coordinating with major broadcast networks in the Eastern 
U.S.
  Mr. Perlmutter has received numerous awards including six Emmys for 
The Great American Dream Machine, Adam Smith's Money World, and Joseph 
Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers; the Peabody Award for 
The Public Mind with Bill Moyers; and five Ace Awards for excellence in 
programming on cable television for Consumer Reports Presents, 
Everything You Want to Know About Smoking and Money Matters.
  Mr. Perlmutter originated more than 150 documentaries ranging from 
investigative to social to cultural issues for National Educational 
Television (NET) including: NET Journal, Assignment America, Black 
Journal, The Drinking American, Speak out on Drugs, China from Mao to 
Mastercard and several art specials from Europe, Russia and the Far 
East. These documentaries have included: The Constitution in Crisis, 
The Creative Spirit, Great Tales in Asian Art, The Public Mind, Whose 
Death is it Anyway?, The Emperor's Eye: Art and Power in Imperial China 
and The Priceless Treasures of Dresden.
  He is a former National Trustee of the National Academy of Television 
Arts and Sciences and a past Governor of the Academy's New York 
Chapter. He also served as a member of the Overseas Press Club of 
America and chairman of the board of both the Washington-based Citizens 
for Independent Public Broadcasting and the Anti-Defamation League Dore 
Schary Awards Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of 
the New York Open Center, the Rockland Center for the Arts, was 
Chairman of the Board of Advisors of CUNY-TV, the City University's 
Television Station and testified before the U.S. Senate as President of 
the Public Television Producers Association. He was a member of the 
State of New York Governors Commission on Judicial Nominations.

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