THIS FAR BY FAITH is a powerful film about the cultural history of the black experience in America. This prime-time landmark PBS special was premiered at the.Kennedy Center .in.Washington D.C. with a special screening at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Brock Peters leads a cast of over two hundred featuring major artists, with Edmund Cambridge as the Griot, who. trace history from Africa to Mississippi to Chicago and on into the American experience.

This multi-award-winning film was subsequently divided and expanded into six different presentations. The topics based on the film include Literature with James Baldwin and Roscoe.Lee Browne for poetry. The Heritage Hall Jazz Band, jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, and the AME choirs illustrate Music Theater features Beah Richards and Glynn Turman. The Dance presentation. is with Geoffrey Holder and Carman. de Lavallade, Graphic Arts is with Jacob Lawerence. Sponsored AT&T.

EUROPE AND AMERICA with noted actor Sir Anthony Quayle is a half-hour television special that also received a wide screen
theatrical release in Europe and the U.S. and won First Place at virtually every major film competition throughout the world in the documentary category.  It was produced for America’s bi-centennial by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and traces the
interdependent philosophy, politics, and history of the European and American cultures that support the concept of freedom.

The journey begins in Athens and travels the streets of 50 major cities in Europe and America.Production included all the countries of Europe and 24 states in America.This film’s 2000 year historic scope of the struggle for freedom concludes at the stature of the Minuteman in Concord, Massachusetts.

Multiple split screens and the people of Rockwell International proved to be the winning combination of elements for the film PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE. This is a story of the massive technology integrated by this multi-national company creating everything from computer chips to the NASA Space Shuttle, automotive,  aviation,  forensic  science,  military  and  civilian vehicles. This half hour documentary is packed with startling imagery. The narrative information is translated into eight languages including Mandarin Chinese. World-wide production was required.

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 Karson was the lead cinematographer and coordinated twenty camera crews for this salute to
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. He also filmed ships and personnel in England, Italy, France, Japan, Netherlands, Brazil  and  the U. S. S.  Nemitz  atomic powered aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. These vignettes served as the featured stories leading to the final emotional moments of the film in New York.

DISCOVERY is an examination of the differences between science and technology illustrated with dazzling optical montages of nature as the basis of thought processes used by the Nobel Prize winning scientists of Bell Laboratories. They explain and illustrate their thought processes  in pure scientific thinking which lead to the discovery of information that caused the inventions of computer chips, the transistor, fiber optics, application of bi-nary numbers and the inter-net. Pure science is the discovery of information and technology is the application of that knowledge to practical uses. The example used in the film is when President  Kennedy announced that the U.S. would be traveling to the moon, he knew the knowledge had already been acquired, what remained was applying the proven scientific thought to technology. That was the easy part of space travel. This visually spectacular film is designed to stimulate curiosity and creative thought.

THE JURY TRIAL feature length film is the dramatic depiction of the what and how of real criminal proceedings in a formal courtroom setting. Robert Englund (known later to the world as Freddie Kruger) and Paul Gleason head a large cast that takes the audience from street crime to the halls of justice as they follow criminal investigation, direct and cross examination, and finally open arguments. Filmed throughout Los Angeles this compelling story was premiered at LACM to benefit the Los Angeles District Attorney’s organization. Each detail of the processes is an accurate depiction of jury trial technique. Produced with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice.

IMAGINATION, history, commerce, food preparation and nutrition combined with the unusual techniques of cinematography through the “snorkel camera” to study and understand food delivery in the American culture. The pear is the example in this film as the viewer glides over and through intricate and massive displays which illustrate the presentation and use of food.

RAILROADS is a lavish production shot in widescreen aspect ratio with special stereophonic surround sound effects and score. The film is a series of historic vignettes and depictions of the United States railroads use of the steam engines as they whistled their way through our history from the mid-eighteen hundreds to the 1950’s ending at Union Station in Los Angeles. No existing documentary footage is incorporated; all the scenes are meticulously recreated using actual rolling stock, period costumes, and artifacts. This film was made possible with the cooperation of the Sacramento Railroad Museum which built a theater as part of their complex to screen this production for millions of patrons.

A  SENSE  OF HISTORY  is appropriately narrated by an actor of historic note Joseph Cotton. This film is a decade-by-decade series of American History time capsules each one illustrated by their relationship to freedom and the U.S. Treasury Department.

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 worldwide 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, and 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, offshore 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 a 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) where they encounter some energetic and interesting characters in the form of punctuation marks. Bill Cosby did a 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.

THE INFORMATION AGE is a film that follows the creation of the Internet based on the science and technology that made it possible. Filmed throughout America and at the Bell Laboratory facilities

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 a 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 that 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 classrooms, 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 overall 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, RAYtargeted 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 flashbacks take the audience through military exercises, local pubs, police arrests, and shifting alliances and love within the party itself which features music, romance, dancing, and comedy.

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 techniques 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 a legal viewpoint with an 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 worldwide 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 the 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 artworks 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 taught the techniques of merchandising in the marketplace and followed company representatives as they applied each different aspect of these vital business practices from Maine to H

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.