We’ve got an exciting announcement this #FilmFriday! A big new film collection!!!
In 2018, Hagley acquired the Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.20), which offers an introduction to Cinecraft's history and samples of their productions from the company's first thirty years (you can explore that collection online by clicking here). And now, for much of this past month, Hagley staff has been in Cleveland, packing a new Cinecraft collection for arrival and processing.
We are so pleased to announce the acquisition of the Cinecraft Productions film archive. Founded in 1939, the Cleveland-based Cinecraft is the country’s longest-surviving commercial producer of industrial and sponsored motion pictures, a sector that included thousands of companies at its high point during the mid 20th century.
The film collection bound for Hagley includes approximately 1,700 projects covering a period from the 1940s into the 1970s. The collection is the largest motion picture film collection ever acquired by Hagley and will make the Library a destination for researchers of visual culture and the history of industrial films for many years to come. As far as we can tell, it is one of the largest intact collections from an industrial film producer to survive from an era when thousands of businesses specialized in advertising, industrial, and sponsored films.
Among the many prominent Cinecraft clients were DuPont, Hercules Powder, Standard Oil of Ohio, Firestone, Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, Ohio Bell Telephone, General Electric, American Greetings, Carling Brewing, and Republic Steel. Â A number of well known actors and celebrities appeared in Cinecraft film projects including Alan Alda, Merv Griffin, Tim Conway, Chet Huntley, and Danny Kaye. Richard Nixon appeared in a Republic Steel film produced by Cinecraft in 1966. Â Starting in the 1940s, Cinecraft developed and employed a 3-camera production technique that would later become standard for shooting television shows.
In 2017, Jim, John and Ray Culley, the sons of Cinecraft’s founders, Betty and Ray Culley, introduced Hagley to Cinecraft’s current owners, Maria Keckan and Neil McCormick. Maria and Neil have owned and maintained the business and the company archive since 1986. They are just the third owners in the company’s history. We are thrilled, grateful, and honored that Neil and Maria as well as the Culley family selected Hagley to preserve Cinecraft’s history.
We expect the first films from the collection to go online in 2020. As part of the agreement, Hagley will process and digitize a significant portion of the collection over a ten-year period. We plan to post monthly updates about the Cinecraft collection. Stay tuned!
Cinecraft currently specializes in eLearning and training & development projects for a national clientele and continues to develop various motion picture projects for business and non-profit clients. For more information about Cinecraft Productions in Cleveland, please visit www.cinecraft.com.Â
A version of this post previous appeared in Hagley’s Research & Collections News feed. Click here to view that version.
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I was at an indie bookstore with a friend tonight, where I happened to hear a conversation with the owner and a local author, who had recently published his first novel. The three of us got to talking, and I mentioned that he should bring a copy by the library so we could put it in the collection. He was really surprised by this, because the librarian at the county branch said they wouldn't put a book in the collection unless it had been professionally reviewed.Â
Am I the only one that's bothered by this policy? Is this a really common collections development policy that I'm just now hearing about? I'm super curious about everybody else's policies, because the collection development policy at my library is completely opposite from this.
