Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: FJ-HRN-3129

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01:00:03 3	B-Roll – Governors Ball – guys putting up big Oscar poster, guys putting up lights
01:01:56 117	B-Roll – Governors Ball – Oscars billboard, shots around assembling red carpet, posters, Wolfgang Puck interviewing
01:04:24 264	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck We have like for example we have our menu but then if somebody wants to have a grilled chicken breast or a grilled salmon or a vegetarian dish, we have it all so we do it like in the restaurant. We’re not gonna ask the guests, would you like steak or would you like braised short ribs or would you like that, they know what they get but if somebody has any dietary things, we are ready for everything so he have 350 people in the kitchen cooking, so we should be able to do anything they want.
01:04:58 299	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck And then on Saturday or Sunday on Sunday we cook them, so everything is really done at the last moment. We don’t cook anything really in advance because it’s not necessary but we have to get all the food in by Friday to make sure that we have everything in our kitchen, in the refrigerator so that they our cook can start prepping everything so it’s really a mixing of organization because we have like 50 people doing just the orders and the appetizers and things like that and you have your whole group doing the main course and another group doing the salad, so it’s really how we organize everything.
01:05:43 343	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck All these people coming to Los Angeles and I think it’s really wonderful and I think for me to do the party is always exciting.
01:06:08 368	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick – Vice President of Winemaking – Sterling Vineyards Sterling Vineyards is thrilled to be here. This is our 6th year providing wine for the Oscar ceremony. We have 3 wines for the Governors Ball which follows the Oscar ceremony. We’re providing a gold standard reserve chardonnay, a red carpet cabernet sauvignon, and new this year, a muskat cannelli dessert wine.
01:06:29 389	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick Sterling has produced these wines, blended them, bottled them, labeled them exclusively for the Governors Ball, so these are wines available that night and that’s all. But we invite you to join Sterling with all of our other wines if you have an opportunity.
01:06:49 409	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick I hope they’re collectables, certainly. They’re labels, they’re exclusive to this occasion so they’re very uh special occasion bottles.
01:07:04 424	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick As I mentioned, each one of these is blended exclusively for the Oscars. Wolfgang Puck is the chef of the evening, and so I worked with Wolfgang to come up with a wine that will pair with his foods. For example we have the golden standard chardonnay this year. He’s working with a lobster salad as well as some smoked salmon, so I’m looking to produce a wine that has a little bit of that nice vanilla, uh rich pear apple character that will lend itself to with the lobster and will also pair beautifully with the smoky toasty character that we get from the oak, and that pairs nicely with his salmon dish.
01:07:37 457	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick The Red Carpet Reserve that Sterling produces this year keeps mind again the Asian theme that Wolfgang is working with and so I’m looking for a blend that produces a wine that’s rich caseese and black cherry. There’s also an underlying Asian spice that goes through this wine that really pairs well with his braised short rib.
01:07:56 476	Sound Bite: Michael Westrick The desert wine is a muskat connelli. This wine has beautiful characters of apricot, a little bit of sense of ginger, again with that Asian theme and it should pair beautifully with his desert.
01:08:29 509	B-Roll – Governors Ball – shots of Sterling Vineyards wines, guy pouring a glass, a woman taste testing the wine an d she tastes it, pouring the chardonnay and showing bottle
01:10:02 602	B-Roll – Governors Ball – Moet & Chandon Champagne display, pouring a glass
01:14:46 887	Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon Well this is the first year that Moet and Chandon is the exlusive champagne of the Oscars so we are so proud to be a part of t his monumentas occasion. Um it really celebrates glamour and style and elegance.
01:15:05 905	Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon Yes, Chef Wolfgang Puck is certainly been tasting the different marks from Moet & Chandon. So we have collaborated with him on this special occasion.
01:15:17 917	Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon Well we have several different marks from Moet & Chandon. For instance at the Governors ball, guests will be celebrating with Moet & Chandon White Star, Moet & Chandon Rose Imperial, and Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2000. That’s one of our top champagnes that we offer at the house.
01:15:39 939	Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon Well we have something very special that we’re doing this year. Um we have reached out to our wine label who has released a very rare magnum of Moet & Chandon. It’s a vintage 1929 and it’s in honor of our new relationship with the Oscars but also the 1929, the first year of the Oscars, so we’ll be auctioning that off for charity. We have it here, there’s only a few of these bottles available in the world. (talks) We don’t know the value. It’s so rare but we’re hoping that it will fetch a large large amount of money so that we can make a great contribution to an entertainment charity.
01:16:23 983	B-Roll – Governors Ball – Moet display and the 1929 bottle, Herbert interviewing
01:17:48 1068	B-Roll – Governors Ball – little beef patties cooking, food trays and Puck interviewing
01:21:17 1277	B-Roll – Governors Ball – little Oscar salmon and Puck with salmon caviar hours de vours
01:22:09 1329	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck Well here we have a part of our Oscar menu of the Governors Ball. Like we have some very traditional things like our smoked salmon Oscars with caviar here. We’re gonna have our mini-kobe burgers. For example black truffle pizza and then Sherry has this desert here, she made a fabulous desert . it’s benta box made out of white chocolate with passion fruit cake, some wonderful sorbets, some raspberry sorbets, we’re gonna have a ? lime sorbet and a coconut de leche sorbet so you can really go to the top of the sorbet and then chocolate truffle.
01:22:49 1370	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck You can take the desert home, bring the box home, and everybody gonna get their chocolate Oscar. 24 karat gold, too. Yeah you can eat it or put it on the mantel piece, just don’t turn on the heat.
01:23:08 1388	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck If you would have to pay Sherry a loan it would be a fortune so on top of it, the chocolate, it’s a very expensive undertaking but you know what? For the Oscars we have to make it special, you know this is not a thing which happens every week, this is the biggest party of the year for us for sure and I think for the whole city of Los Angeles there’s nothing bigger than the Oscars.
01:23:36 1416	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck Well I think you know we have kobe burgers so they’re most important thing is that they’re really delicious. Pizzas with black truffles is really as good as it can get. Smoked salmon and caviar is not bad either. How much better can you get? And I remember a lot of people prefer our smoked salmon Oscar or our pizza with black truffles than people give them some other fancy stuff, so I think this is really elegant but simple and I think that’s the way we want to go this year you know have a lot of flavor, make it look elegant, but not over the top.
01:24:11 1451	Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck A lot of guests, 1600 people so we’re gonna smoke 50 sides of salmon. We ordered 1800 pounds of short ribs, we gonna order 900 lobsters so Sherry made how many of these boxes? Sherry – 5000 Oscars, 1500 boxes, 3000 pounds of chocolate. (talks) This year actually the caviar is very low because we just use actually for our chocolate Oscar some years we make baked potato with caviar so we’re just gonna have 5 pounds of caviar.
01:25:07 1507	B-Roll – Governors Ball – shots of Puck’s food
01:26:21 1581	B-Roll – Governors Ball – shots of the chocolate Oscars and Sherry’s bento box, a place set dinner table with tree in the middle, shots of some Patron liquor
01:29:13 1753	B-Roll – Governors Ball – Blinn making blueberry vodka drinks with Puck
01:31:03 1863	B-Roll – Governors Ball – cutaway, Puck and Herman posing for photographs
01:32:25 1945	Sound Bite: Ed Blinn – Commercial Director – Ultimate Vodka from Patron We’ve been involved with the Academy for about 20 years and every year we’ve been kind of delegated to make up the specialty cocktail for the Oscars and the last couple of years we’ve been able to make up 2 different cocktails and the cocktails will be served as people come off the red carpet walking up into the Kodak um before the show, during the show, and then afterwards when they go to the Governors Ball. So Wolfgang Puck and Sheryl Gicetto who runs the ball and I sat down every year at Spago and we decide how we’re gonna make a cocktail and Wolfgang brings out some fresh juices so on the Ultimate Vodka side this year we use our vodka which is called Ultimate Vodka which is from Poland which is made from wheat, rye, and potato, and we get some fresh, organic blueberry juice. We get fresh, organic mango juice, put it into a shaker, shake it up, get really cold, and Sherry ? who is the pastry chef designs all the pastries for the Governors Ball. She actually made a silver sugar and we rimmed the glass with silver sugar, strain it, put it into the glass, and then we get some fresh organic blueberries which we just got this morning and that goes into the drink.
01:33:48 2029	Sound Bite: Ed Blinn We’re the Patron Spirits Company, the owner is John Paul DiGorio. We started the company, he started the company uh 20 years ago. Ed Brown who is our president and CEO runs the company for us and about 3 years ago we all sat down and said what do we need to increase our portfolio and we decided it had to be vodka. So John McDonald the CFO and Ed Brown and many of us traveled around the world to see if we could find a vodka that fit the Patron profile, and we came up with this great vodka from Poland called Ultimate and its all-natural, made with wheat, rye, and potato. Small little distillery about 3 and a half hours out of Warsaw and we started marketing it last year in the US. We sold out in the first 3 months, and we start rolling it out this summer in Europe.
01:34:47 2088	Sound Bite: Ed Blinn Well the thing that kind of starts out is is um we use wheat, rye, and potato where a lot of vodkas use wheat and rye, some use just straight potatoes, so we’ve got the blend of the 3 which gives it the smoothness when you finish it. we use a hydro-selection process which um distills the vodka at a certain proof and then we filter it 4 times. So we have 4 times distillation, 4 times filtration. And then we use this thing, this process called candlelight filtration, so it goes through these filters when candles look at the impurities and we take all the impurities out through this filtration process and then we uh what’s the end result, a smooth clean, and then its made all from natural products.
01:35:44 2144	B-Roll – Governors Ball – the blueberry drink, the silver sugar with Blinn explaining how it