

A live, half-hour campaign broadcast for Governor Jerry Brown during the 1980 Democratic primaries—produced by Francis Ford Coppola and staged in Madison, Wisconsin—experimenting with real-time video effects. The production was plagued by technical mishaps (audio failure, on-screen typos, and misfiring composites), earning the tongue-in-cheek nickname “Apocalypse Brown.”
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come runs for 30min, and was released in 1980.
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