Personal life Braverman is the son of television producer, Herb Braverman (died 1958), and actress
Kendall Carly Browne. His brother is actor
Bart Braverman.
Career Among his earliest efforts was an
animated short film called
An American Time Capsule set to a recording of "The Charge" from the album
Beat That #?!* Drum by famous drummer Sandy Nelson (the film credits only cite the album name, not the actual title of the song). The film was composed of hundreds of short clips of art and photos (graphics animation) depicting 200 years of American history in two and a half minutes. This film was originally seen on
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on the
CBS network in 1968. The Smothers Brothers commissioned a second film from Braverman about the year 1968 for their final 1969 season. (Both films were included on the
Smothers Brother Comedy Hour DVDs, and
An American Time Capsule can be viewed on the Internet Archive.) In 1971–72, Braverman made a 12-minute film about the history of
the Beatles called "Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles", first seen on
Geraldo Rivera's "Good Night America" television show for ABC. The film used mostly animated graphics, but also features some short live action clips, including a cameo by Rivera interviewing
John Lennon about his American citizenship troubles. The film was distributed in 16mm by Pyramid Films in the 1970s, but so far has never been officially released on video. Braverman produced the opening sequence to the 1973 film
Soylent Green in the same style of
American Time Capsule. In the 1980s, he produced
D-TV for
The Disney Channel. ==Filmography==