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Director - Eric Karson

Charlton Heston is the host and narrator for this spectacular naval
adventure filmed around the world and concluding with the largest
international naval gathering of ships ever held which took place in
New York Harbor on July 4, 1976 to celebrate the United States
Bi-Centennial.  This event included military ships of the line and all
the beautiful three mast sailing ships from a host of countries.  Eric

America which included positions on land, sea and in the
air with speed boats, helicopters, on the ships themselves,
and vantage points throughout the New York harbor area.

ENERGY is a film with a sober theme, the energy needs of the future and is an intense examination of all sources of energy use world wide by all cultures. The audience travels around the world on land through fifteen countries and on all seven seas to focus on man's quest for the life giving necessity. All forms of solar, wind,

fossil fuels including oil, coal and gas, thermal and scientific

exploration of alternative fuels are presented. Production included extremely exotic locals such as the Artic Circle, aboard the Glomar Explorer in the Caribbean, off shore oil rigs at sea and the "Empty Quarter" of the Saudi Arabian desert. Corporate sponsor Exxon/Esso.

TELEZONIA is a fanciful, fun, musical comedy film.  The Script and Lyrics are by Ed Reich with musical score and music for seven songs by Richard Halligan. The kids in the film are transported to an unusual environmental setting created by James Schoppe (later nominated for an art direction Academy Award on Star Wars) were they encounter some energetic and interesting characters in

the form of punctuation marks. Bill Cosby did the national promotional campaign to provide all schools in the U.S. with this presentation. This educational project was sponsored by AT&T to instruct elementary school children in all aspects of telephone usage from phone books to manners and emergencies. To date the film is ranked number one with educators rating information retention through entertainment.

where the inventions were created, this film follows the psychology and cultural impact this capability would have on cultures around the world. More than any other event, such as the Industrial Revolution or the

Bronze Age, the prophetic commentary by the scientists who caused this ability to become reality proved to be true. The foundation and naming of "The Information Age" still have implications to be discovered.

LANTANA is a unique presentation of successful and profitable completed feature films and group of proposed new feature films to be produced by a production group backed by national publicly traded investment groups. This promotional sales presentation for Angelus helped place this package of six films with Warner Brothers.

BOREALIS - a television special with Sir Anthony Quayle which features a cast of 20 people committed to defending the democratic traditions of the Western Alliance. Filmed in the natural environments of contemporary Norway, Denmark and northern

Germany, which make-up the Northern Flank of N.A.T.O., the people of the military establishments in these countries, together with their families, provide the background, reasons and necessity of this vital international alliance on a very personal level. The Air Force, Navy, Army and Home Guard (National Guard) volunteers of each country participate and personalize

the choices for their service in The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We explore the people's hopes, plans, aspirations, concerns and reasons for their commitment while traveling from submarines to Bar-B-Qs, fighter

planes to grade school class rooms, tanks to amusement parks and the secret operations hidden deep in the fjords of the area.

KNOW WHEN TO SAY WHEN is the first in a series of television shows associated with a massive campaign of social

responsibility sponsored by Anheuser-Busch. This over-all project is a complete presentation in all media prepared by Karson-Higgins-Shaw.

The pilot show is a half hour dramatization about a single evening in the life of a successful married couple during which the husband takes a wrong turn when it comes to drinking responsibly. The target audience of this show is the general population.

The second show in the series is HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAY targeted for a youth audience. The setting is a party of exuberant college age young adults which features interwoven stories of success and failure in dealing with social responsibilities. The Dramatized flash-backs take the audience through military exercises, local pubs, police arrests and shifting alliances and loves within the party itself which features music, romance, dancing and comedy.

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NEW DIRECTIONS is the focus of this fast paced hi-tech film which explains the emergence of the digital world.  Photonics, Laser Technology, Fiber Optics and Digital applications are the examples used to explain the expansion of the Information Age. A remarkable variety of photographic technique is used to display and explain the basis of these exotic technologies.

In addition to on-sight laboratory settings from the Jet Propulsion Labs

in California to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, production included traveling throughout the U.S. Massive sets on sound stages were constructed which provided the capability of laser black screen rear projections, blue screen compositing of images and floating stage platforms for the actors to allow under lit projections, all to demonstrate the use of new concepts. Much of this footage is used by Disney World in Florida in the AT&T displays.

THE LAW OF THE SEA is a motion picture commissioned by the U.S. State Department and first screened at the law of the sea conference in Caracas, Venezuela.  Narrator Berry Sullivan guides us through international maritime history from the legal viewpoint with emphasis on fishing industry rights and international shipping. Incorporating map design and stop motion photography illustrates the complexity of issues involved in the conflict of multi-national rights to territorial claims.

YOUNG AT HEART includes the history of, the reasoning behind, the design and presentation of advertising for the world's largest advertiser, Coca Cola. This one hour television exploration of the background for a world wide advertising campaign journeys from the corporate board room, through company marketing research and think tank evaluation of contemporary attitudes to reach a given target market.  The focus then shifts to the design and execution of message content in graphics, music motifs and commercials for all visual and audio media outlets.  The film then follows the concept through completion of a new massive message project at recording sessions in New York, commercial productions throughout the U.S. and the integrated crossing

of time buys to reach the consumer. Coca Cola made available all the original historic art works used since the inception of the company including the Rockwell paintings commissioned by the company which defined America's image of Santa Claus.

THOUGHT FOR FOOD is a unique documentary film created for the Florida Museum of Science and Industry.  The basis of the film is agriculture and how science has transformed this most basic of mankind's activities into the modern miracle of food production and distribution that makes America the envy of the world.

HOW AMERICAN CINEMA CHANGED HOLLYWOOD FOREVER is an unusual insider look into the world of theatrical motion picture production, advertising, publicity and promotion.  The subject of this television documentary is the company American Cinema Group which during the Second Golden Age of Hollywood, in the late nineteen seventy's and early nineteen eighties, literally changed

how films were marketed in the United States. This company created the business models later copied by the major studios and other independent distributors of films. The styles and techniques they used directly lead to the patterns of today's mass marketing. Interviews with the principal executives, producers and directors of this company, are illustrated by the highly successful independent films they made and distributed. In a corporate environment that encouraged different approaches toward creative thinking and its application to new technologies and capabilities such as saturation television advertising, unusual promotional showmanship and publicity gambits we discover how they changed all the rules.

OPERATION TIGER is a series of seven films for Coca-Cola U.S.A. These were designed as motivational presentations that teach the techniques

of merchandising in the marketplace and followed company representatives as they apply each different aspect of these vital business practices from Maine to Hawaii. Each subject used a different location as a backdrop for the stories; cities such as San Francisco, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Boston and Los Angeles were featured.

PEOPLE, PRODUCT AND PERFORMANCE, is a major image film for General Motors. The emphasis of the production is people with the theme of their contributions and aspirations in the multi national structure of G.M. overseas.  This involved the people and cultures of ten different countries on five continents.  The presentation incorporates automotive design, manufacturing, testing and marketing and includes the corporate support of employee endeavors from Welsh choirs and orchestras in England to athletics in South Africa, bands in Germany, racing in Australia, carnival in Brazil, basketball in the Philippines and a host of other direct civic contributions.