Nicolas Noxon

Nicholas Lane Noxon was born in 1936 in London, England to a Canadian born father, and an American born mother. He attended the private Putney School in Putney Vermont, and then attended Antioch College Ohio from which he received a BA. He first worked as an editor for a Washington DC based educational film company, then went to California and worked for David Wolper Productions and was part of documentary movie projects sold in the early 1960's directly to TV stations, thus by-passing the major broadcast networks. Direct sales of movies to local TV stations was called "syndication distribution," and was an important part of local TV programming in the 1950's and 1960's, supplementing network provided programming and programming originated at each local station. Nicholas Noxon was part of the very first TV documentaries sponsored by the National Geographic Society, and remained part of these documentaries for decades.