Herk Harvey 16mm Collection vol.04

After Centron Films former employee and film director Herk Harvey passed away in 1996, his wife Pauline asked Demolition Kitchen Video to come over to their house and inventory Herk’s 16mm films. The Centron Film Corporation was a leading industrial and educational film production company in Lawrence, Kansas, that specialized in classroom and corporate 16mm films.
The films weren’t really a collection, they were more just films of interest that Herk saved when he retired from Centron films. We were allowed with permission from Pauline Harvey to copy any film in his collection that was interest to us, there were a lot of films we transfer 8 hours of 16mm films. There were a number of interesting films including the raw footage of an unfinished feature film called “The Reluctant Witch.” That unfinished feature film was shot on 16mm and was never finished due to budget problems along with production conflicts.
(Individual dubs of some of these films are posted separately in the Demolition Kitchen Video Collection)
There are four volumes in the collection, here’s Volume Four.
Contents:
- Herk’s House (home movie, silent)
- The Reluctant Witch (raw footage, silent)
- Centron Stock Footage reel
- Herk Harvey’s home movies
The Far East (home movie, silent)
Burma and the Far East (home movie, silent)
India (home movie, silent)
Africa (home movie, silent)
Lenigrad (home movie, silent)
- The Avadex Story