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Herk Harvey

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.7668 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Herk Harvey spent decades directing educational films, but he is best remembered for his lone feature, 1962's Carnival of Souls. Featuring interviews with Dr. Bernice Murphy, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin; Skip Elsheimer, founder of the A/V Geeks educational film archive; Candace Hilligoss, star of Carnival; and Herk Harvey himself. 

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0:00.0

You know, you have to be careful about making a weird show or watching a weird show.

0:09.5

It may come back to haunt you.

0:13.9

Enjoy.

0:16.6

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0:21.6

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0:29.1

When I say filmmaker, who do you think of?

0:34.5

Maybe someone who directs features, or TV shows, or documentaries.

0:44.4

Perhaps they're employed by a studio or work independently.

0:50.6

Of course, there's all kinds of other filmmakers.

1:02.0

Students, amateurs, people who make art films and short films and cut-ups and video installations. And then there's folks like Herk Harvey.

1:06.0

The lens of a motion picture projector is an eye that can help you,

1:12.6

stimulate, motivate, educate your students.

1:20.6

I think the most pertinent thing when I was looking at Harvey was that he was a maker of industrial films.

1:26.6

Films that were largely made for distribution in high schools in particular.

1:31.3

I'm Bernice Murphy. I'm an associate professor in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin.

1:37.3

Films made for the classroom have several purposes.

1:41.3

It helps when you're choosing a film to know that there is a connection between the purpose of that film and the techniques used to achieve that purpose.

1:51.0

It's only when you dig into the whole concept of an educational film and an educational film company,

1:57.0

then you realize that there's otorers, there's real legitimate filmmakers who really did good ones.

2:03.6

I'm Skip Alzheimer, and I'm the founder of the AV Geeks Educational Film Archive

2:09.6

in Raleigh, North Carolina.

2:11.6

In an over three-decade career, Herc Harvey directed likely hundreds of educational films.

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