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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: James "Jim" R. Haviland
Date(s): 2020-09-14
Contributor(s): Haviland, Jim (James R.) (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer)
Description: In this interview James Haviland tells stories about his grandfather, Robert "Bob" Haviland, an early producer at Cinecraft Productions in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics discussed include the elder Haviland's brief career as a professional tuba player and other life stories. Haviland talks about his grandfather's background in audiovisual work and the jobs he held before joining Cinecraft. Haviland also describes his grandfather's approach to his work at Cinecraft and how he got the job. Haviland...
Show moreIn this interview James Haviland tells stories about his grandfather, Robert "Bob" Haviland, an early producer at Cinecraft Productions in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics discussed include the elder Haviland's brief career as a professional tuba player and other life stories. Haviland talks about his grandfather's background in audiovisual work and the jobs he held before joining Cinecraft. Haviland also describes his grandfather's approach to his work at Cinecraft and how he got the job. Haviland explained that his grandfather preferred the stability of having a regular job over the instability of working on movies in Hollywood. Haviland also shares how his grandfather traveled to Los Angeles, California in order to secure Hollywood actors for Cinecraft productions. He also talks about his grandfather's role in syncing audio and film together, especially 16mm. Haviland retired from Cinecraft in the 1970s. He had a film studio in his house and made films in his retirement.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)
Hagley ID: JimHaviland09142020
Collection: Cinecraft Oral Histories

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

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