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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: H. M. Warner to John J. Raskob
Date(s): 1932-11-23
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent), Warner, Harry Morris, 1881-1958 (correspondent), Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) (originator)
Description: Letter from the Warner Bros. president offering Raskob a director position with the company.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: raskob-2399
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

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: 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: 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: The Talking Hoist production stills
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company (sponsor)
Description: Depicts the production crew on set. Pictured from left to right are Paul Culley, Frank Benish, Robert Welchans, Harry Horrocks, and Ray Culley.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Production films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_22_23_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

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: Maria Keckan and Neil McCormick
Date(s): 2020-08-10
Contributor(s): McCormick, Neil (interviewee), Keckan, Maria (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer)
Description: In this interview Keckan and McCormick talk about their careers pre-Cinecraft, their early time at Cinecraft and the changes that have happened in the film production industry since they purchased the company in 1984. Before coming to Cinecraft, Keckan worked as a producer making medical education films. McCormick joined Cinecraft in 1977 after attending graduate school at CUNY. He has always been interested in filmmaking. McCormick talks about evolving film production technology from joining...
Show moreIn this interview Keckan and McCormick talk about their careers pre-Cinecraft, their early time at Cinecraft and the changes that have happened in the film production industry since they purchased the company in 1984. Before coming to Cinecraft, Keckan worked as a producer making medical education films. McCormick joined Cinecraft in 1977 after attending graduate school at CUNY. He has always been interested in filmmaking. McCormick talks about evolving film production technology from joining the company in 1977. Both Keckan and McCormick talk about the challenges of buying the company and upgrading the existing equipment. Their troubles were financial and personal as existing employees were wary of the new management. McCormick provides a start to finish descriptions of some of the productions he worked on including Where the River Enters the Sea and Sohio Today and Tomorrow. They talk about some of Cinecraft's more recent developments, and how production has changed since the 1980s. McCormick explains that Cinecraft had always specialized in sound and producing high quality sound recordings to accompany their films. McCormick explains how the work Cinecraft does has become less segmented as one person can do multiple jobs, and that company employs more people now than it did in 1984. Both Keckan and McCormick talk about the importance of e-learning to Cinecraft's current work. Keckan explains the her son, Dan, is responsible for driving the growth of e-learning to the point of where it has become Cinecraft's largest source of business. McCormick offers his thoughts on digital media and the importance of non-destructive editing allowing for multiple lossless cuts. Keckan talks about some of Cinecraft's work with non-profit organizations. Keckan and McCormick talk about their philosophy of running a business and working with clients as the company hits 80 years in operation. They talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted work at Cinecraft. They talk about their future hopes for the company, and how Keckan's son and his business partner have expanded the company from local, to national, and then international.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)
Hagley ID: MariaKeckanandNeilMcCormick08102020
Collection: Cinecraft Oral Histories

Title: John Culley
Date(s): 2020-07-16
Contributor(s): Culley, John (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer)
Description: In this interview John provides a biographical sketch of his parents, the founders of Cinecraft and elaborates on the company's Ohio roots. He explains how his father was a self-taught multi-talented man, who worked as a jeweler before moving to Hollywood, California and starting working in the film industry both as an actor and in production. After his experience in Hollywood, Culley's father moved back to Ohio in order to start his own industrial film production company. Culley describes...
Show moreIn this interview John provides a biographical sketch of his parents, the founders of Cinecraft and elaborates on the company's Ohio roots. He explains how his father was a self-taught multi-talented man, who worked as a jeweler before moving to Hollywood, California and starting working in the film industry both as an actor and in production. After his experience in Hollywood, Culley's father moved back to Ohio in order to start his own industrial film production company. Culley describes the early days of the company and how his parents met. Both were working in the film business at the time. Culley tells stories about growing up with a growing family run business, including work he did there as a child and young man. Culley explains how technology changed over his time with company and provides an in-depth description of sound editing, and technology from the 1940s and during the time he worked there in 1960s and 1970s. He also talks about a job he held at CBS in Cleveland Ohio, a position held by his twin brother and his younger brother. He explains the working relationship between Cinecraft and a scriptwriting company called Storycraft. He also talks about the importance of 16mm film and teleprompters in Cinecraft's productions. Culley talks about how Cinecraft built and maintained relationships with advertising agencies.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)
Hagley ID: JohnCulley07162020
Collection: Cinecraft Oral Histories

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: Bob Schneider
Date(s): 2020-09-17
Contributor(s): Schneider, Robert A. (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer)
Description: In this interview, Robert Schneider answers follow-up questions from his first interview on August 5, 2020. He goes into the creative process on some of Cinecraft's productions, including a directorial job for the U.S. Navy after the original producer, Bob Haviland suffered a heart attack. Schneider continues to talk about working with Haviland, including his unique method of organizing projects with a system of colored pencils. Schneider contrasts this to his organization method, which...
Show moreIn this interview, Robert Schneider answers follow-up questions from his first interview on August 5, 2020. He goes into the creative process on some of Cinecraft's productions, including a directorial job for the U.S. Navy after the original producer, Bob Haviland suffered a heart attack. Schneider continues to talk about working with Haviland, including his unique method of organizing projects with a system of colored pencils. Schneider contrasts this to his organization method, which imitated Gene Rodenberry's index card system that he used on Star Trek. He also talks about how he learned to do the job watching Ray Culley on the job. He talks about doing live action sound work when sharing works in progress with clients. He compares this experience to working as a disc-jockey. Schneider talks about how recording and television technologies changed over time.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)
Hagley ID: BobSchneider09172020
Collection: Cinecraft Oral Histories

Title: Bob and Nancy Schneider
Date(s): 2020-08-05
Contributor(s): Schneider, Robert A. (interviewee), Schneider, Nancy (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer)
Description: Bob Schneider discusses his background in photography and video. He explains that his interest in these fields came from his grandfather. He joined Cinecraft in 1964 and began work after serving in the U.S. Army. In addition to working at Cinecraft, Schneider also worked as an independent DJ. Schneider provides a detailed overview on recording technology dating to the 1950s and 1960s. Nancy Schneider talks about her work at Storycraft, a sister company to Cinecraft. She worked on a radio...
Show moreBob Schneider discusses his background in photography and video. He explains that his interest in these fields came from his grandfather. He joined Cinecraft in 1964 and began work after serving in the U.S. Army. In addition to working at Cinecraft, Schneider also worked as an independent DJ. Schneider provides a detailed overview on recording technology dating to the 1950s and 1960s. Nancy Schneider talks about her work at Storycraft, a sister company to Cinecraft. She worked on a radio program called Salespoint, a program Westinghouse used to keep their traveling salesmen up to date on the company's products. Both of the Schneiders explain that Cinecraft was the top production company in Cleveland and they talk about how Cinecraft compared to other local production companies. They explain the relationship between Cinecraft and Storycraft.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)
Hagley ID: BobandNancySchneider08052020
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

Title: Research Department Presentation production materials
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (production company), American Steel & Wire Co. (sponsor), American Steel & Wire Co. Donora Works (associated name)
Description: Includes a script, opening picture sequence, notes, and scene descriptions for a series of movie productions describing research operations at the American Steel & Wire Company. The script introduces the research facilities and departments, then describes the company’s development of improved wire drawing and lubricants. The opening picture sequence documents are comprised of a series of diagrams showing film set layouts. Handwritten notes list the motion pictures and scenes in the production...
Show moreIncludes a script, opening picture sequence, notes, and scene descriptions for a series of movie productions describing research operations at the American Steel & Wire Company. The script introduces the research facilities and departments, then describes the company’s development of improved wire drawing and lubricants. The opening picture sequence documents are comprised of a series of diagrams showing film set layouts. Handwritten notes list the motion pictures and scenes in the production. Finally, a collection of scene descriptions for two additional films provide a brief description, shooting instructions, and length for each scene.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_02_07
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Power of Super 16
Date(s): 1993
Contributor(s): Eastman Kodak Company (Sponsor)
Description: Film exploring the benefits of using super 16mm film in motion picture production. Argues that film is superior to video as a medium for capturing moving images. Features various directors, producers, cinematographers, and other filmmakers, including Rune Ericson, Jean Pierre Beauviala, Andrew Dunn, Katja von Garnier, Ewa Karlström, Peter Langsdale, and Maurice Olivier. A UK production.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC310
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Crew scenes from the set of the motion picture 'Soldiers of the Soil'
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0164
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Crew scenes from the set of the motion picture 'Soldiers of the Soil'
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0172
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Crew scenes from the set of the motion picture 'Soldiers of the Soil'
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0169
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

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