About this collection

Cinécraft Productions was founded in 1939 by Ray Culley (1904-1983) and Betty (Buehner) Culley (1914-2016) in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm specialized in commercial productions for business, industry, trade organizations, and, in some cases, government agencies and social service organizations. The company has been in continuous operation since then, making it the “country's longest-standing corporate film & video production house”.

Hagley Library's collections of material generated by, or in association with, Cinécraft Productions include The Cinecraft, Inc. films (Accession 2019.227) collection, the , Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206) collection, Robert A. Schneider collection of Cinecraft Production audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.202), the Frank Siedel papers (Accession 2022.215), and scattered items in our Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222).

Read articles about Cinecraft in the Hagley Research and Collections News.

The collections that have been digitized appear below. None of them have been digitized in their entirety, and new additions continue to be made to some collections.

Image: Employee caricatures, 1945