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Title: Clipping, Air Force film
Date(s): 1969
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), United States. Air Force (associated name)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_015
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Ray Culley
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_014
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Bob Welchans, director
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_010
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Scrapbook of film stills
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_25
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'Three-Camera Technique Used To Shoot TV Film' by Dodge E. Barnum
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Barnum, Dodge E., 1902-1981 (author), Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (associated name)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_01_21
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Shooting titles for Hercules Powder Company
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), Hercules Powder Company (associated name)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_003
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: On top of Terminal Tower, Cleveland
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_006
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Testing new cine special
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_001
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: On location in So. Euclid
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_002
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: On Location, Storm King Highway, New York
Date(s): 1940
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_004
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Film World, September 1946
Date(s): 1946-09
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Ver Halen, Charles J. (publisher)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_10_01
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'It Happened in the Kitchen' pamphlet
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Modern Kitchen Bureau (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_07_02
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'It Happened in the Kitchen' pamphlet
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Modern Kitchen Bureau (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_07_01
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: An Afternoon with Cinecraft: Past and Present [transcript], Remembering How It All Began
Date(s): 1999-12-17
Contributor(s): Culley, Paul (interviewee), Haviland, Robert E., 1914-2003 (interviewee), McCormick, Neil (interviewee), Haviland, Jim (James R.) (interviewer), Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Description: In this two-part interview, Paul Culley and Bob Haviland discuss their experiences at Cinecraft Production in Cleveland Ohio. Culley, the company's former owner, and Haviland, the former executive producer, discuss the company's start and its founder Ray Culley. (Ray Culley sold the company to his brother Paul in 1970). They discuss Ray Culley's time working in Hollywood and how he returned to Cleveland to found Cinecraft. Included in this part of the interview are recollections of Tri-State...
Show moreIn this two-part interview, Paul Culley and Bob Haviland discuss their experiences at Cinecraft Production in Cleveland Ohio. Culley, the company's former owner, and Haviland, the former executive producer, discuss the company's start and its founder Ray Culley. (Ray Culley sold the company to his brother Paul in 1970). They discuss Ray Culley's time working in Hollywood and how he returned to Cleveland to found Cinecraft. Included in this part of the interview are recollections of Tri-State Pictures, an industrial film company in Cleveland.

Bob Haviland recounts how he started as an industrial photographer and how he became involved in motion picture film making. His early career included work producing slide films for industrial training and education. The company he worked for bought Tri-State, and that is how he met Ray Culley and eventually starting work at Cinecraft sometime around 1950.

Paul Culley describes his start at Cinecraft working for his brother after returning from serving in the Second World War. Paul worked in the sound department, and he talks about the technical challenges of producing sound for motion picture films with a limited budget on 16mm film stock.

The interview then steers towards specific film projects, including The Spoilers (Supermarket Institute), Milestones of Motoring (Standard Oil of Ohio), The Ohio Story (Ohio Bell Telephone), Long Ships Passing (The Lake Carriers Association), Magnificat (Sisters of the Humility of Mary), and Where's Joe (steel industry). They also talk in detail about working with and producing TV commercials for Papa Barnard, the founder of Vita-Mix.

During discussions about specific jobs, Bob and Paul talk about the technical and logistical challenges of shooting and producing films. They also touch on some business aspects of industrial film productions, including hiring professional actors to appear on film. Among the Hollywood actors mentioned are Merv Griffin, Joe E. Brown, Reed Hadley, and Otto Kruger.

About three-quarters through the interview, Neil McCormick, the then-current Cinecraft co-owner joins the interview. This part of the discussion focuses primarily on the equipment and technical aspects of filmmaking and its evolution during the company's history. Bob Haviland details a job for U.S. Steel that involved using high-speed film to capture a steel cable's breaking. U.S. Steel used the footage to defend a lawsuit against the company.

Throughout the interview, the participants discuss the positive working conditions at Cinecraft and the professionalism among those who worked there. They also emphasize the creativity needed to produce compelling products for their clients.

The interview was conducted at the Cinecraft Studios on Franklin Blvd in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 17, 1999. Jim Haviland - Bob Haviland's grandson - conducted the interview.
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Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_01_23
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'More Reasons to Sell Pennzoil', Pennzoil News, 1960
Date(s): 1961-04
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Pennzoil Company (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_29
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Ray Culley and Richard Nixon
Date(s): 1966
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_DigOnly_013
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: An Afternoon with Cinecraft: Past and Present, Remembering How It All Began
Date(s): 1999-12-17
Contributor(s): Culley, Paul (interviewee), Haviland, Robert E., 1914-2003 (interviewee), McCormick, Neil (interviewee), Haviland, Jim (James R.) (interviewer), Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Description: In this two-part interview, Paul Culley and Bob Haviland discuss their experiences at Cinecraft Production in Cleveland Ohio. Culley, the company's former owner, and Haviland, the former executive producer, discuss the company's start and its founder Ray Culley. (Ray Culley sold the company to his brother Paul in 1970). They discuss Ray Culley's time working in Hollywood and how he returned to Cleveland to found Cinecraft. Included in this part of the interview are recollections of Tri-State...
Show moreIn this two-part interview, Paul Culley and Bob Haviland discuss their experiences at Cinecraft Production in Cleveland Ohio. Culley, the company's former owner, and Haviland, the former executive producer, discuss the company's start and its founder Ray Culley. (Ray Culley sold the company to his brother Paul in 1970). They discuss Ray Culley's time working in Hollywood and how he returned to Cleveland to found Cinecraft. Included in this part of the interview are recollections of Tri-State Pictures, an industrial film company in Cleveland.

Bob Haviland recounts how he started as an industrial photographer and how he became involved in motion picture film making. His early career included work producing slide films for industrial training and education. The company he worked for bought Tri-State, and that is how he met Ray Culley and eventually starting work at Cinecraft sometime around 1950.

Paul Culley describes his start at Cinecraft working for his brother after returning from serving in the Second World War. Paul worked in the sound department, and he talks about the technical challenges of producing sound for motion picture films with a limited budget on 16mm film stock.

The interview then steers towards specific film projects, including The Spoilers (Supermarket Institute), Milestones of Motoring (Standard Oil of Ohio), The Ohio Story (Ohio Bell Telephone), Long Ships Passing (The Lake Carriers Association), Magnificat (Sisters of the Humility of Mary), and Where's Joe (steel industry). They also talk in detail about working with and producing TV commercials for Papa Barnard, the founder of Vita-Mix.

During discussions about specific jobs, Bob and Paul talk about the technical and logistical challenges of shooting and producing films. They also touch on some business aspects of industrial film productions, including hiring professional actors to appear on film. Among the Hollywood actors mentioned are Merv Griffin, Joe E. Brown, Reed Hadley, and Otto Kruger.

About three-quarters through the interview, Neil McCormick, the then-current Cinecraft co-owner joins the interview. This part of the discussion focuses primarily on the equipment and technical aspects of filmmaking and its evolution during the company's history. Bob Haviland details a job for U.S. Steel that involved using high-speed film to capture a steel cable's breaking. U.S. Steel used the footage to defend a lawsuit against the company.

Throughout the interview, the participants discuss the positive working conditions at Cinecraft and the professionalism among those who worked there. They also emphasize the creativity needed to produce compelling products for their clients.

The interview was conducted at the Cinecraft Studios on Franklin Blvd in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 17, 1999. Jim Haviland - Bob Haviland's grandson - conducted the interview.
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Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_History_of_Cinecraft_combined
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection, Cinecraft Oral Histories

Title: Du Pont's 'The Story of Phenothiazine' film still
Date(s): 1940
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), United States. Department of Agriculture (sponsor)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_06_02
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Company Christmas card, 1947
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_07
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'Let's Look at Apex' pamphlets
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Apex Electric Manufacturing Company (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_10_03
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Cinecraft staff and crew with Reed Hadley
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_12
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Production stills, Scott & Fetzer movie
Date(s): 1967
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), Scott & Fetzer Company (associated name)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_06
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Betty Culley in a 'It Happened in the Kitchen' film still
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), Modern Kitchen Bureau (sponsor)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_07_03
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Ray Culley in director's chair
Date(s): 1960
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_03
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'Miracle on Mulberry St.' film still
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), Seiberling Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) (sponsor)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_23
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

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