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2009. In progress:

Extreme Visions (a film on buildings by Frank Gehry and Dimitri Porphyrios at Princeton University), a 60-minute film by Thomas Ball, Telos productions, Cleveland. Principal scriptwriter (with Thomas Ball).

TELOS productions • 6001 West Creek Road • Cleveland, Ohio 44131 • 216.642.1001 • tom@telos.tv
http://telos.tv/

2008.

The Beauty of Damage: The World of Christopher Pekoc, a 19-minute film by Thomas Ball, written by Thomas Ball and Henry Adams , Telos Productions, Cleveland, principal funding by Toby Devan Lewis, based on the catalogue The Beauty of Damage: The World of Christopher Pekoc by Henry Adams. Initiated the project, raised the funding, appeared in the film and served (with Thomas Ball) as scriptwriter.

TELOS productions • 6001 West Creek Road • Cleveland, Ohio 44131 • 216.642.1001 • tom@telos.tv
http://telos.tv/

2001.

Success by Design: The Schreckengost Legacy, a 60-minute film produced by Glazen Creative, WVIZ/PBS, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Initiated the project, served as principal scholarly advisor, and appeared in the film.

Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design
by Henry Adams, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 800-441-4115; 192 pages, illustrated. $40 paperback.

Success by Design: The Schreckengost Legacy
Video, 2000, 45 minutes, directed by Ted Zbozien, produced by Glazen Creative Group for WVIZ/PBS in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art; available from the museum store, 800-469-4449. $14.95

Here I am with Ken Burns on a crane, photographing Thomas Hart Benton’s Missouri mural in Jefferson City, for the film on Benton that came out in 1989, the centennial of Benton’s birth.

1989.

Thomas Hart Benton, a 90-minute film by Ken Burns, which was broadcast nationally to an audience of 20 million. Produced by Florentine Films, Walpole, New Hampshire in collaboration with WGBH Boston, 1989. I initiated the project, appeared in the film, and served as the scholarly consultant. I also served as principal fundraiser for the film, writing a successful grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities (bestowed on August 21, 1986), the largest that had ever been awarded for a film up to that date; and making a successful approach to Equitable Life Assurance.

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benton/benton/
http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Thomas-Benton/dp/B000BITUJI