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ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION

Theatrical Advertising and Promotion Productions
From 1972 through the present while continuing his career as a writer, director, producer, and production executive, Mr. Karson has continued writing and producing materials for advertising motion pictures by creating hundreds of trailers and television packages, electronic press kits and promotional reels for films released by major studios and leading independent producers and distributors, both domestic and foreign.  In addition, he has created advertising for companies allied with the entertainment industry such as Deluxe Laboratories. This work is done with his brother Gil Karson through Karson Media using state-of-the-art graphics and techniques.
A Partial Listing of Clients Includes:
Twentieth Century Fox
CBS Television
American Cinema International
Warner Bros. 
Universal Pictures 
Porchlight Entertainment
Lorimar Pictures
American Distribution Group
Regent Entertainment
LaMonde (Canada)
Sandy Howard International
New Regency Entertainment
Norkat (US/France)
Lantana  
Artist View Entertainment
Imperial Entertainment   
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 
Mainline Releasing
Scanbox (Denmark)
American Cinema Releasing 
Kurshner-Locke Entertainment

Commercial Productions
Working as a director and director/cameraman, Mr. Karson has created scores of commercials for a wide range of products and services.  Formats include both television and cinema in dramatic, comedic, and stylized musical presentations from 10 seconds to 3 minutes.  Often these commercials are incorporated into short films as separate presentational productions with celebrity spokespersons.
A partial listing of Clients Includes:
 
Exxon
General Motors
 
American Telephone and Telegraph
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
 
Rockwell International 
Air West
 
Levi Strauss
N.A.T.O.
 
Columbia Broadcasting System
Faberge Cosmetics
 
U.S. Navy and Armed Forces
Lincoln Mercury
 
Coca Cola, U.S.A
Marlboro International
 
Coca Cola, International
A partial listing of Advertising Agency Clients Includes:
 
N.W. Ayer, Inc.
Foote, Cone, & Belding
 
BBDO
Grey Advertising
 
Benton & Bowles, Inc.
McCann-Ericksen, Inc.
 
Leo Burnett, U.S.A. 
Needham Harper Worldwide
 
Campbell-Ewald Company 
Ogilvy and Mather
 
Dancer, Fitzgerald, Sample, Inc. 
Wells, Rich & Green
 
Doyle, Dayne, Bernback
J. Walter Thompson
 
Young and Rubicam
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