The story of the people in O&P
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Title:
The story of the people in O&P
Date:
12/17/2014
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Around thirty years ago I was doing presentations at AOPAregional meetings, and started the first Public Relations Committee within theMidwest Chapter of AAOP. My soapbox was about using the media to promote O&P,and I even wrote articles about PR in the Almanac. A lot has changed since thenwhere the media and the Internet is used to sell O&P hardware, but I seevery little telling the story about the people in the O&P profession like inthe movie produced for ABC at Paul Leimkuehler’s place featuring Art Guilford and some of Paul’s clients in the1960s.
For the past fifteen years I have been surprisingly successfulin placing amputees in major movies and television shows through anorganization and website I started for that purpose. As I read here about theissues and problems facing the profession today I have to wonder. Would the hardearned dollars you give to politicians who care more about their elections thenyou or your profession be better invested in projects that tell about whom youare, what you are, and what you do?
I have amassed a network of amputee talent, screenwriters,film and video producers along with subject matter experts like prosthetistsand orthotists looking for film and television projects. It was not that longago I was meeting with a local film producer working on a movie script thatincluded a woman prosthetist, but it takes money to go from a movie script to afinished film. A recent advance notice of a casting call for an film shootingin the LA area March and April of 2015 has individuals ready to travel from coastto coast to be in the project or from surrounding states so I know there arewilling people.
Is it not about time that this profession once again produceda film or video telling the story about the people of our profession and not justthe hardware?
Al Pike, CP(E)
Amputees In Hollywood LLC
www.amputeesinhollywood.com
For the past fifteen years I have been surprisingly successfulin placing amputees in major movies and television shows through anorganization and website I started for that purpose. As I read here about theissues and problems facing the profession today I have to wonder. Would the hardearned dollars you give to politicians who care more about their elections thenyou or your profession be better invested in projects that tell about whom youare, what you are, and what you do?
I have amassed a network of amputee talent, screenwriters,film and video producers along with subject matter experts like prosthetistsand orthotists looking for film and television projects. It was not that longago I was meeting with a local film producer working on a movie script thatincluded a woman prosthetist, but it takes money to go from a movie script to afinished film. A recent advance notice of a casting call for an film shootingin the LA area March and April of 2015 has individuals ready to travel from coastto coast to be in the project or from surrounding states so I know there arewilling people.
Is it not about time that this profession once again produceda film or video telling the story about the people of our profession and not justthe hardware?
Al Pike, CP(E)
Amputees In Hollywood LLC
www.amputeesinhollywood.com
Citation
“The story of the people in O&P,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/236975.
