Editing An American Family

{{Short description|American television series}}
{{other uses|American Family (disambiguation){{!}}American Family}}
{{Redirect|Loud Family|the unrelated animated TV series featuring a family with the same surname|The Loud House|the unrelated rock band|The Loud Family}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use American English|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox television
| image        = The Loud Family 1973.JPG
| caption      = The Loud Family (Back, from left: Kevin, Grant, Delilah and Lance. Front, from left: Michele, Pat and Bill)
| genre        = [[Television documentary|Documentary]]/[[Reality television|Reality]]
| director     =
| country      = United States
| language     = English
| num_seasons  = 1
| num_episodes = 12
| producer     = Craig Gilbert
| editor       = {{Plainlist|
*  Pat Cook
* Eleanor Hamerow
* David Hanser
* Ken Werner
}}
| company      = [[WNET]] New York
| channel      = [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]
| first_aired  = {{Start date|1973|01|11}}
| last_aired   = {{End date|1973|03|29}} 
}}

'''''An American Family''''' is an American television documentary series that followed the life of a California family in the early 1970s. Widely referred to as the first example of an American [[Reality television|reality TV]] show,<ref name="Washington Post">{{Cite news |title=Craig Gilbert, creator of 'An American Family,' called the first reality TV show, dies at 94 |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/craig-gilbert-creator-of-an-american-family-called-the-first-reality-tv-show-dies-at-94/2020/04/18/ea66b34c-7e4e-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> the series drew millions of weekly viewers, who were drawn to a story that seemed to shatter the rosy façade of upper-middle-class suburbia. It also became a lightning rod for discussion about the precarious state of the American family in the early 1970s. ''An American Family'' ranks #32 on ''[[TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time]]'' list.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-04-22 |title=TV Guide Names Top 50 Shows |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tv-guide-names-top-50-shows/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Production and story ==
Created by Craig Gilbert, ''An American Family'' examined the daily trials and tribulations of the Loud family of [[Santa Barbara, California]]. Researching subjects for the series, Gilbert interviewed about 24 families before he settled on the Louds—a mother, father, and five "telegenic" children who owned a large house, multiple cars, and a swimming pool.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schudel |first=Matt |date=2020-04-18 |title=Craig Gilbert, creator of 'An American Family,' called the first reality TV show, dies at 94 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/craig-gilbert-creator-of-an-american-family-called-the-first-reality-tv-show-dies-at-94/2020/04/18/ea66b34c-7e4e-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html |access-date=2002-11-07 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>  Shooting began in May 1971, and Gilbert and his film crew, which included the cinematographer Alan Raymond and his wife Susan Raymond who handled sound, spent the next seven months filming the Louds.

The final product, edited down from 300 hours of 16-millimeter footage, was ''An American Family'', which aired in 1973 as 12 weekly one-hour episodes on the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS). The film was presented in fly-on-the-wall style with very limited narration.

The story that unfolded of the Louds, who at the outset of the series seemed to epitomize the [[American Dream|American dream]], showed a married couple on the verge of divorce and children, ranging from 14 to 20 years old, in high and low moments. The "toothpaste-bright affluence, California-style" family, as described in 1973 in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref name="The New York Times">{{Cite news |date=1973-01-23 |title=TV: 'An American Family' Is a Provocative Series |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/23/archives/tv-an-american-family-is-a-provocative-series.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> turned out to be "comfortably ordinary, sadly familiar, the kind of family most white middle-class Americans can identify with."<ref name="The New York Times"/>

The series was popular, earning more than 10 million viewers a week.<ref name="The New York Times"/> It also sparked controversy and drove conversation in national magazines and television talk shows about the state of the American family.

The intense interest in the Louds, wrote Dennis Lim in ''The New York Times'' in 2011, "had much to do with their lives seeming to fall apart as America watched."<ref name="lens">{{Cite news |last=Lim |first=Dennis |date=2011-04-15 |title=Reality-TV Originals, in Drama's Lens |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/television/hbos-cinema-verite-looks-at-american-family.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-11-08 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230422151708/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/television/hbos-cinema-verite-looks-at-american-family.html |archive-date= Apr 22, 2023 }}</ref>

== The Loud family ==
The popularity of the series, which was viewed by 10 million Americans per week, gave the Louds a form of celebrity. Family members profiled were:

* Bill Loud (1921–2018)<ref>{{cite web |title=Family Announcement |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1873733629340662&id=107226672658042 |website=Facebook}}</ref><ref name="GBH">Cf. episode "Going Back Home"</ref><ref name="AAFINTRO">Cf. episode "An American Family: an introduction" narrated by producer Craig Gilbert, January 1, 1973</ref>
* Pat Loud (1926–2021)<ref name="AWOMANSSTORY">Cf. Loud, Pat, ''Pat Loud: A Woman's Story'', 1974</ref><ref name="GBH" /><ref name="AAFINTRO" />
* [[Lance Loud]] (1951–2001)
* Kevin Robert Loud (born 1953)
* Grant Loud (born 1954)
* Delilah Ann Loud (born 1955)
* Michelle Loud (born 1957)

Lance Loud is credited as the first continuing character on television who was openly gay,<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/american/ PBS - "Lance Loud! . An American Family"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416033121/http://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/american/|date=April 16, 2016}}.</ref> and he subsequently became an [[gay icon|icon]] within the [[LGBT]] community.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 4, 2002 |title=Lance Loud |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lance-loud-729879.html |first1=Adrian |last1=Dannatt |url-status=dead |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323141233/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lance-loud-729879.html |archive-date=March 23, 2009}}</ref> He later became a columnist for the national LGBT news magazine ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]''. Lance, who had been a pen pal of [[Andy Warhol]], himself known for his commentary on celebrity, said the series fulfilled “the middle-class dream that you can become famous for being just who you are.”<ref name="lens"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Douglas C. |date=1987-02-23 |title=ANDY WARHOL, POP ARTIST, DIES |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/23/obituaries/andy-warhol-pop-artist-dies.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

One of the more notable moments of the series was when, after 21 years of marriage, Pat asked Bill for a divorce and to leave the house. Pat's saying to her husband, "You know there's a problem"&nbsp;&ndash; with Bill's response, "What's your problem?"&nbsp;&ndash; was chosen as one of the Top 100 Television Moments by ''[[TV Guide]]''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

The series drew intense interest, millions of viewers, and considerable controversy. The family was featured in ''[[Newsweek]]'' on March 12, 1973, in the article "The Broken Family".<ref>{{cite book |last=Ruoff |first=Jeffrey |title=An American Family: A Televised Life |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-8166-3561-7 |pages=xviii |no-pp=true}}</ref>

In 2003, PBS broadcast the show ''Lance Loud!: A Death in an American Family,'' which was filmed in 2001. Visiting the same family again at the invitation of Lance before his death,<ref name="pbs-landloud-about">{{cite web |title=About the film |url=https://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015233609/http://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/about/ |archive-date=15 October 2008 |access-date=2008-10-23 |publisher=PBS.org}}</ref> the family members participated in the documentary, with the exception of Grant. Lance was 50 years old, had gone through 20 years of addiction to [[Methamphetamine|crystal meth]], and was [[HIV]] positive. He died of liver failure caused by a [[hepatitis C]] and HIV co-infection that year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lance: His life and legacy |url=https://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/lance/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201055456/http://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/lance/ |archive-date=1 December 2008 |access-date=2008-10-23 |publisher=PBS.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lueck |first1=Thomas J. |date=29 December 2001 |title=Lance Loud, 50, Part of Family Documentary |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/us/lance-loud-50-part-of-family-documentary.html |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref> The show was billed by PBS as the final episode of ''An American Family''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 50 TV Shows of All Time From ''TV Guide'' |url=http://www.ez-entertainment.net/features/tvguide50.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014001152/http://www.ez-entertainment.net/features/tvguide50.htm |archive-date=14 October 2008 |access-date=2008-10-23 |publisher=EZ-Entertainment.net}}</ref>

Subsequent to the showing of ''A Death in an American Family'', Pat and Bill Loud moved back in together,<ref>{{cite web |last=Jensen |first=Elizabeth |date=2003-01-06 |title=Lance Loud's last testament |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-06-et-jensen6-story.html |access-date=20 March 2011 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=3}}</ref> granting one of Lance's last wishes. They lived very close to three of their four surviving children—Grant, Michelle and Delilah—and kept in close contact with Kevin and his family, who lived in Arizona.<ref>{{cite web |title=America's First Reality TV Show |date=June 25, 2007 |url=http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/25/americas-first-reality-tv-show/ |access-date=2011-08-26 |publisher=Neatorama}}</ref> In 2012, Pat Loud released a book about her son's life called ''Lance Out Loud''. Bill died in July 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yardley |first1=William |date=27 July 2018 |title=Bill Loud, the Father of TV's 'An American Family,' Is Dead at 97 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/obituaries/bill-loud-dead-american-family.html |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref> Pat Loud died in her sleep from natural causes on January 10, 2021, at age 94.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yardley |first=William |date=2021-01-11 |title=Pat Loud, Reality Show Matriarch of 'An American Family,' Dies at 94 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/arts/television/pat-loud-dead.html}}</ref>

==Critical response==
According to the ''[[New York Times]]'' in 2011, "critical and popular reaction varied," and it suggested the series reflected America in a "counterculture hangover."<ref name="lens"/>

Some critics praised the raw honesty of the series. The anthropologist [[Margaret Mead]] called it "an extraordinary series" and said that "nothing like it has ever been done."<ref name="Yardley">{{Cite news |last=Yardley |first=William |date=2020-04-13 |title=Craig Gilbert, 94, Dies; Created Groundbreaking 'American Family' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/arts/television/craig-gilbert-dead.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Mead also proclaimed that ''An American Family'' was "as new and significant as the invention of drama or the novel.”<ref name="lens"/> Others were put off, viewing the Louds as a sign of the nuclear family's demise.<ref name="lens"/>

[[Jean Baudrillard]], a French philosopher and sociologist, described ''An American Family'' as a symptom of the way TV has changed our relationship with reality itself.<ref name="lens"/>

The Louds' response to the series was positive at first, it seemed. Shortly after filming wrapped, Pat Loud wrote in a letter to Gilbert: “I think you’ve handled the film with as much kindness as is possible and still remained honest. I am, in short, simply astounded, enormously pleased and very proud.”<ref name="Washington Post"/>  But the Louds' feelings soon soured. They began to vocalize criticism of Gilbert's emphasis on the negative parts of their lives.<ref name="lens"/> In an appearance on [[The Dick Cavett Show|Th''e Dick Cavett Show'']] in 1973, Pat Loud said the series “makes us look like a bunch of freaks and monsters."<ref name="lens"/>

In 1988, Gilbert reflected on the legacy, stating, “I stand behind every frame of that series, yet I understand why it made so many people uncomfortable. This was a film about all of us. About how we’re all trying, and usually failing, to make sense out of life."

A 1973 review by John J. O'Conner in the ''New York Times,'' called it "quite extraordinary" and "unusually sensitive," and maintained: "It might be challenged and attacked. It cannot be dismissed."<ref name="The New York Times"/>

==Cultural impact==
''An American Family'' is widely credited with ushering in the era of reality television.<ref name="Yardley"/> In 2013, Gilbert criticized the modern-day genre of reality television, saying, "What they’re doing is they’re using real people, but they’re scripting the shows."<ref name="Yardley"/> He called reality TV "basically cheap television."<ref name="Yardley"/>

The series inspired numerous TV shows, films, and documentaries.

In 1974, the BBC made its own similar program, called ''[[The Family (1974 UK TV series)|The Family]]''. The program consisted of 12 half-hour episodes, showing the daily lives and concerns of the [[working-class]] Wilkins family, of [[Reading, Berkshire]], England.

In 1978, in a skit called "The Loud Family," ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' portrayed a family whose members shouted at the top of their lungs, even during intimate moments.

The series inspired a 1977 story arc in the satirical soap opera ''[[Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman]]'' in which a television crew for ''[[The David Susskind Show]]'' documents the daily life of the titular character as the "typical American consumer housewife".

In 1979, [[Albert Brooks]] spoofed the series in his film ''[[Real Life (1979 film)|Real Life]]''.<ref name="Westword">Roberts, Michael. [http://www.westword.com/1996-03-14/music/the-unreal-world/ "The Unreal World"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128132305/http://www.westword.com/1996-03-14/music/the-unreal-world/|date=January 28, 2015}}. ''[[Westword|Denver Westword]]''. March 14, 1996</ref>

In 1983, HBO broadcast ''An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later''.<ref name="pbs-landloud-about" />

The ''[[Kate & Allie]]'' episode "The Very Loud Family", where Emma films their daily lives for a school project, is inspired by ''An American Family''.

The 1985–88 [[mockumentary]] series of TV films ''[[The History of White People in America]]'' and ''Portrait of a White Marriage'' parody the series in following the lives of a dysfunctional white suburban family led by [[Fred Willard]] and [[Mary Kay Place]].

The series inspired the [[MTV]] reality television series ''[[The Real World (TV series)|The Real World]]''.<ref name="Westword" />

[[Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris|Jonathan Dayton]], co-director of the 2006 film ''[[Little Miss Sunshine]],'' says the film was inspired in part by ''An American Family''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ettenhofer |first=Valerie |date=2022-08-13 |title=The Controversial '70s TV Hit That Inspired Little Miss Sunshine |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/959206/the-controversial-70s-tv-hit-that-inspired-little-miss-sunshine/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=/Film |language=en-US}}</ref>

In April 2011, PBS rebroadcast the entire original series in a marathon format on many of its member stations, before the release of the [[HBO]] film ''[[Cinema Verite]]'', based on the series.<ref>Braxton, Greg, [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/04/pbs-so-cal-to-run-marathon-of-landmark-an-american-family.html "PBS' KOCE to broadcast landmark 'An American Family'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306204626/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/04/pbs-so-cal-to-run-marathon-of-landmark-an-american-family.html|date=March 6, 2016}}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', April 13, 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jan/11/pbs-looking-to-revisit-1973s-an-american-family/ "PBS looking to revisit 1973's 'An American Family'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011131928/http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jan/11/pbs-looking-to-revisit-1973s-an-american-family/|date=October 11, 2012}}, [[Associated Press]], January 11, 2011</ref>

On July 7, 2011, most PBS stations presented ''An American Family: Anniversary Edition'', a two-hour film by Alan and Susan Raymond that featured selected moments from the documentary series, in tribute to the 40 years since the series began filming in 1971. It was subsequently released on DVD.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/programs/american-family/ ''An American Family: Anniversary Edition''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702054818/http://www.pbs.org/programs/american-family/|date=July 2, 2013}}, PBS</ref>

The French philosopher [[Jean Baudrillard]] mentions the television series in his 1981 book, ''[[Simulacra and Simulation]]''.

== Dispute over ''Cinema Verite'' ==
The 2011 HBO film ''[[Cinema Verite (2011 film)|Cinema Verite]],'' a fictional examination of the making ''An American Family,'' brought to the surface a dispute over the process of making ''An American Family.''

The film portrays a clash between the series' creator, Gilbert (played by James Gandolfini), and the cinematographer Alan Raymond (played by Patrick Fugit). The clash depicted in the film was over the validity of the original series' ''[[Cinéma vérité|cinema verite]]'' descriptor''.'' The film suggests Gilbert "may have instigated drama and may have overstepped boundaries" during the filming of ''An American Family'', including a rumored relationship between him and Pat Loud (which both parties deny).<ref name="lens"/>

Alan Raymond and his wife, Susan, who handled sound on ''An American Family,'' served as consultants on the HBO project, but they said they agreed with the "thrust" of Gilbert's series. The Raymonds did have their criticisms. Alan said he and Susan were "at odds with Craig over the treatment of the family. There were numerous confrontations where we tried to raise the question about whether the experiment was veering off course.”

Director [[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini|Robert Pulcini]] said, "Everybody remembers it a little bit differently or a lot differently depending on what you’re talking about."

Gilbert saw it differently, defending his approach this way: "I didn’t script a thing. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t negotiate anything. I didn’t manipulate anything."<ref name="Yardley"/> He dismissed the HBO film as "a fiction" and offered that "an impossible script" challenged the film.

The film's screenwriter [[David Seltzer]] defended his script, saying, "The critical mass of research was my barometer for what to go with". Seltzer also consulted Pat Loud's book when writing the script.<ref name="lens"/>

Gilbert and the Raymonds shared the opinion that ''An American Family'' is unfairly blamed as the progenitor of today's reality television.<ref name="lens"/>

== Craig Gilbert ==
Gilbert was born in New York City; his father was a copyright lawyer who worked with songwriters including Irving Berlin. He started his film and TV career at WNET-TV, in New York. He produced documentaries about anthropologist [[Margaret Mead]] and Christy Brown, a disabled Irish artist. [[Daniel Day-Lewis]], in preparation for his Oscar-winning role as Brown for the 1989 movie ''[[My Left Foot]]'', consulted Gilbert.<ref name="Yardley"/> Gilbert and his wife, Suzanne Stater, separated in the early 1970s shortly before filming began (incidentally, Bill and Pat announce their separation on camera in an episode of the series).<ref name="Yardley"/><ref name="lens"/> "The idea for the series was something out of my own life," Gilbert said to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1973.

== Credits ==
''An American Family'' episode nine end-credits; rerun airdate April 24, 2011, 7 a.m., [[WNET]]-TV
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* Conceived and produced by Craig Gilbert
* Executive producer: Curtis W. Davis
* Camera: Alan Raymond
* Sound: Susan Raymond
* Coordinating producer: Jacqueline Donnet
* Associate producer: Susan Lester
* Film editor: Ken Werner
* Assistant film editor: Bob Alvarez
* Additional photography: Joan Churchill
* Additional sound: Peter Pilafian
* Assistant cameramen: Tom Goodwin, Peter Smokler, Mike Levine
* Series title film created by Elinor Bunin
* Title-music supervision: John Adams
* Film editors unit: Pat Cook, David Hanser, Eleanor Hamerow, Ken Werner
* Editing assistants: Joanna Alexander, Ernie Davidson, Bob Alvarez, Janet Lauretano, Tikki Goldberg, Dan Merrill, Joe Lovett, Sue Steinberg
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* Apprentices: Jesse Maple, Hannah Wajshonig<!--sp OK with "j"-->, Harvey Rosenstock
* Sound editor: Thomas Halpin
* Assistant sound editor: Peet<!--sp OK Peet--> Begley
* Production managers: Kathleen Walsh, Michael Podell
* Assistant: Janet Freeman
* Location unit managers: David Burke, Bernard Katz, Peter Scarlet
* Production secretary: Alice Carey
* Production assistants: Kristin Glover, David Henry
* Research: Will MacDonald
* Sound mixer: Richard Vorisek
* Engineering supervisor: Ed Reingold
* Senior video engineer Art Emerson
* Funding provided by the [[Ford Foundation]] and the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]]
* A production of [[WNET]]/13
* Copyright 1973 [[Educational Broadcasting Corporation]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Pat Loud and Nora Johnson. ''Pat Loud: A Woman's Story''. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. {{ISBN|0-698-10578-8}}.
*Jeffrey Ruoff. ''An American Family: A Televised Life''. [[University of Minnesota Press]], 2002. {{ISBN|0-8166-3561-7}}.
*Mark Andrejevic. ''Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.  {{ISBN|0-7425-2748-4}}; {{ISBN|978-0-7425-2748-5}}.

==External links==
{{Commons category|An American Family}}
* [http://www.thirteen.org/american-family/ ''An American Family'' on WNET's website]
* {{IMDb title|id=0211195|title=An American Family}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0367493|title=An American Family Revisited}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0352071|title=Lance Loud!: A Death in an American Family}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150909011613/http://cinemavirtualis.com/americanfamily.html Subterranean Cinema: ''An American Family: The Story of the Louds''] — articles on the show
* Reviews of the Jeffery Rouff book ''An American Family: A Televised Life'':
**  [http://www.januarymagazine.com/artcult/anamericanfamily.html ''January'' magazine: "Bang the Drum Loudly"] — Richard Klin's review of Rouff book
**  [http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/21/box21-4-e.html Documentary Box #21] from the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival — Anna Grimshaw's review of Rouff book
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110404040244/http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/amfamily.html NYU's Fales Library Guide to the "An American Family" DVD collection]
* {{emmytvlegends title|american-family-an}}

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