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Multiple cameras used simultaneously in filming a scene stands among the innovative methods employed by Cinecraft Productions in making films and programs for early television. The ‘invention’ of multiple camera shooting is often attributed to Desi Arnaz when he adopted the technique…
This year marks our third year of working to preserve our Cinécraft Productions sponsored film collection. Founded in 1939, Cinécraft specializes in commercial productions for business, industry, trade organizations, and, in some cases, government agencies and social service organizations.…
Hagley staff has spent the early part of the year wrapping our heads around our recent Cinecraft Productions acquisition. So far, we have counted over 6,000 cans of film, 20 large boxes of paper archives, and 150 production scripts. Among the film collection, there are at least 500 wide…
Annabel Pinkney is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she received her MS degree in Library and Information Science. She is an aspiring archivist and has spent the summer as the Audiovisual Processing Intern. Annabel recently finished processing a portion of the…
This month we are featuring a film from the Cinecraft archive used in a campaign from General Electric to convince consumers and businesses of the superiority of FM radio. “Naturally it’s FM,” released in 1946, explains for a non-technical audience the evolution of radio signals from crystal sets…
The Cinecraft collection at Hagley is among the most extensive intact collections from an industrial film producer in the country. The collection does not include everything produced on film from the Cleveland-based company, but it includes approximately 1500 unique productions and a collection of…
As a senior in high school, Paul Culley began working for his brother Ray, President of Cinecraft Productions, before being inducted into the military. He resumed work at Cinecraft after his discharge from the Air Force in 1945. When Ray retired in 1970, Paul took over as head of the company. In…
We have spent the summer at Hagley continuing to process films, still images, and paper from the Cinecraft collection. One of the many surprising discoveries is that some of the films in the collection were not produced by Cinecraft.
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Hercules Powder Company was one of the companies created from the break-up of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours "powder trust" in 1911 as ruled by a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, gunpowder production served as Hercules' main focus at its founding. By the 1920s, the company…
We are pleased (and relieved) to report that the Cinecraft film collection has arrived safely at Hagley after a 423 mile journey from Cleveland, Ohio. The collection of over 6,000 film cans and 20 boxes of paper archives from the Cleveland-based industrial film producer is the largest acquisition…