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Early Films
How To Bridge A
Gorge
While Ray was still working for George
Pal Puppetoons he signed up for night courses in the area of a Combat
Camera Man at Eastman Kodak at Columbia Studios in Los Angeles. Knowing
that sooner or later he would be drafted for the second world war, In his
spare time he shot the four minute film on 16mm and showed it to his
teacher who showed it to Frank Capra. At the time Frank was assembling a
special crew for his special service division. In the end he ended up in
that service division.
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal was Ray's attempt to show
how stop-motion photography could be used for training purposes, he did
most of the film on his spare time and on weekends. This short film was
produced in the middle of the 1940's
Commercial Demo
Soon his post in the military was about
to end so Ray decided to work on a TV commercial, he used Lucky Strike
cigarettes as a sample and he produced a short 16mm film.
City of Lakewood
Ray first got involved in the Lakewood
City development project in the 1950's, they approached Ray to make a
series of commercials so Ray came up with Kenny Key a character shaped
like a key.. The head of the Lakewood company dint really care for the
cigar that Kenny had, Ray had to explain to them that it was needed for
the various gestures that Kenny would do while on camera. Ray went on to
produce three commercials for them. Lakewood is a city in Los Angeles, Ca.
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