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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has even more photos for us from the church’s movie sets, and this time he’s given us a great narrative about being sandwiched between L. Ron Hubbard's scripts and David Miscavige's mercurial directives. (See his previous photos here, here and here.)
All Scientology training reinforces the idea that one’s success as an auditor, and in life, is entirely dependent on one’s ability to execute perfect TRs (for “training routines”), making TRs one of the main girders in Scientology’s culture of obedience. Hubbard believed in enforcing a strict global standard for auditor training, and he knew the best way to do that was with films. Corporations and the military have long understood that same principle.
While hiding out in Sparks, Nevada, from the FBI resulting from the July 8, 1977, Snow White Program raids, Hubbard instructed his staff back at his La Quinta property in Southern California to study books on filmmaking as he scripted the 26 auditor training films that became known as the “Tech Films.” This surge of production finally put into action his 1963 decree that Scientology would not survive without films to show how it’s done.
Following their stint at the La Quinta property, Hubbard moved his film production endeavors 60 miles west to a broken-down resort at Gilman Hot Springs, establishing Golden Era Production as a film studio and a potential hideout.
The films were cobbled together by Hubbard’s immediate entourage, including such Scientology luminaries as Norman Starkey—the future trustee of Hubbard’s estate—and a sixteen-year-old David Miscavige standing tall as a cameraman.
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[/td]All Scientology training reinforces the idea that one’s success as an auditor, and in life, is entirely dependent on one’s ability to execute perfect TRs (for “training routines”), making TRs one of the main girders in Scientology’s culture of obedience. Hubbard believed in enforcing a strict global standard for auditor training, and he knew the best way to do that was with films. Corporations and the military have long understood that same principle.
While hiding out in Sparks, Nevada, from the FBI resulting from the July 8, 1977, Snow White Program raids, Hubbard instructed his staff back at his La Quinta property in Southern California to study books on filmmaking as he scripted the 26 auditor training films that became known as the “Tech Films.” This surge of production finally put into action his 1963 decree that Scientology would not survive without films to show how it’s done.
Following their stint at the La Quinta property, Hubbard moved his film production endeavors 60 miles west to a broken-down resort at Gilman Hot Springs, establishing Golden Era Production as a film studio and a potential hideout.
The films were cobbled together by Hubbard’s immediate entourage, including such Scientology luminaries as Norman Starkey—the future trustee of Hubbard’s estate—and a sixteen-year-old David Miscavige standing tall as a cameraman.
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What it’s really like making movies for Scientology leader David Miscavige
Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has even more photos for us from the church’s movie sets, and this time he’s given us a great narrative about being sandwiched between L.
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