Gary Joseph Schlosser (born c.1937) is a film producer who was most active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is best known for co-producing the 1966 film ''

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'', for which he was nominated for an

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for Best Documentary, Short Subjects in 1967. He served as associate editor on the

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short film ''Africa Goes to the Fair'' (1967). Schlosser also served as executive producer of the cinéma vérité documentary film series '' The Social Seminar'', produced by the

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for the

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from 1970 to 1972. Schlosser was born in Ohio and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Syracuse University, Schlosser married Anne Griffin in 1965.

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