How Joyce Chopra Filmed the First Live Birth on Television — Hers
Motherhood did n’t look all that invoke to director Joyce Chopra in 1963 , when she was sent to Aberdeen , South Dakota , on one of her first documentary assignments : capturing footage of the 2 - hebdomad - old Fischer quintuplets forThe Saturday Evening Post . “ It was clear that Mrs. Fischer was not overly pleased to see us , ” Chopra writes in her new memoirLady Director : Adventures in Hollywood , Television and Beyond , describing the medium circus skirt the mother of 10 , who had doubled the size of her family in a single hospital slip ....