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Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey (June 3, 1924 – April 3, 1996), was an American film director, actor, and film producer.

Early life

Harvey was born in 1924 in Windsor, Colorado, the son of Everett and Minnie R. Prewitt Harvey. He grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado and was a graduate of Fort Collins High School before serving in the U.S. Navy as a Quartermaster, 3rd Class, during World War II, during which time he was studying chemical engineering. "But when I got out," Harvey has said, "I decided that wasn't for me and so I went into the theater."

Harvey came to Lawrence, Kansas in 1945 to study theater at the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater, directing and acting in stage productions, such as "Harvey," "Beggar on Horseback," and "Hamlet." During his college years, he was vice-president of the Dramatics Workshop, appeared with the University Players, and was a member of the Owl Society. He earned a bachelor of science degree in education from the KU speech and drama department in 1948 and received a master of arts degree in speech and drama from KU in 1950. Besides student appearances, he appeared in summer stock, with the Topeka Civic Theater and with Kansas City's Resident Playhouse.

On June 3, 1950, Harvey's 26th birthday, he married Bernice Luella Brady, a girl from Wichita some five years his junior. The wedding ceremonies were held in the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence. The two had met at KU in the drama department and had performed in "Hamlet" together in 1948. After the marriage, Harvey did a graduate study in drama during the 1950 summer session at the University of Denver, and then studied at the University of Colorado for a doctorate in theater. "I made it through summer school and then I decided to go back to Kansas," Harvey has said. He and his wife then returned to Lawrence, rented an apartment on campus, and Harvey began working as an instructor, teaching and directing for the KU speech and drama department.

Centron Films

Harvey broke into the film business as an actor in some of the movies being made by Centron Corporation of Lawrence, an independent industrial and educational film production company. He subsequently went to work for Centron as a film director and producer for 35 years, making a variety of short industrial, educational, documentary, and government films. Several of these films have found their way into offbeat television shows of today, poking fun at the early production technology, mannerisms, and acting often found in these shorts, including Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Many of Centron's early productions were shot in and around Lawrence, but as their staff and their studio space expanded in the late 1950s, Centron film crews were dispatched to locations around the globe to bring back images for geography and travel films. Harvey often was assigned these bigger jobs. During the 1960s, large corporate clients, such as John Deere, AC Delco, Caterpillar Tractor, and Monsanto Chemical, hired Centron to help carry out their message to stockholders and consumers through film. Centron occasionally brought big-name Hollywood stars, such as Anita Bryant, Walter Pidgeon, Ed Ames, Eddie Albert, Jesse White, Ricardo Montalban, and the Rowan and Martin comedy team, to Lawrence to appear in these films. Harvey often got to work with these big stars, as well. Harvey's efforts for Centron garnered him numerous national and international awards, the highest honors from the American Film Festival, C.I.N.E., and the Columbus Film Festival, as well as an Academy Award nomination for a short Centron film he directed about a small, disabled local man and how this man overcame his disability and found relatively large success with his clock-making business. The film was titled Leo Beurman.

It is most likely that the long hours and the many weeks spent away from home on location in different parts of the country, and sometimes the world (Harvey and a two-man crew spent sixty days filming a series of seven geography films on location in South America, a number of problems, both political and technical, arose during filming, and it was during this trip that the distribution company for Carnival of Souls went bankrupt and once Harvey returned home, he was chagrined to find that the film had been abruptly pulled from theater screens, and that the funds were nowhere to be found), it all took a toll on Harvey's marriage. He and Bernice were divorced around 1960, and shortly afterward Harvey met Pauline G. Pappas, who was one of the investors for Carnival of Souls. The two were married by the end of the 1960s.

Through all of his 33 years at Centron, from 1952 until 1985, Harvey displayed several unique personal qualities which are still well and warmly remembered by his former co-workers and friends. One was his ability to create excitement and generate the best performance from actors on the set. Another was his understanding of the problems of actors, actresses, crew people, and writers, knowing that working in a film was tedious work. And the one major quality that Harvey is best remembered for by all who knew him was the massive amount of energy, enthusiasm, and effort he put into his work. As his obituary stated, "No matter the size of the project, Harold A. 'Herk' Harvey also gave it his all." A cameraman who worked with Harvey at Centron remembered that once, both he and Harvey climbed to the very top of a water tower to get just the right shot of a banana plantation in Costa Rica. Back on the set at the Centron studios in Lawrence, Harvey would also strive for getting the best performance out of actors, the best sound, the best lighting, the best camera angles, etc., while experimenting with film-making techniques and attempting to make his day job more interesting all the while. Harvey became friends with all Centroners he worked with, but he became closest with John Clifford, a Kansas writer who came to Centron as an advertising copywriter in 1960 and found that he and Harvey had mutual interests. For instance, Harvey had been inspired to write a screenplay of his own from a story he had read in a Topeka newspaper which was written, he found out, by Clifford. The two hit it off. Clifford wrote the script for Harvey's feature film Carnival of Souls and convinced the Centron people, with this film, that he could write movie scripts. Clifford went on to become one of Centron's best scriptwriters, remaining with them from the early 1960s until 1985, when he, Harvey, and most of the original Centroners retired. Starting in 1981, Harvey and Clifford began working on many community and university theater projects together, with Clifford writing and Harvey usually acting or directing. These local stage productions included a comedy, "The Wabash Winning Streak," which Harvey directed, and a drama set during the Depression era, titled "Here's to You, Grandma," where Harvey played a starring role.

It is also interesting to note that when a crew from ABC came to Lawrence in 1982 to shoot the controversial television movie on nuclear war, The Day After, they cast Harvey (who had always been an actor at heart) as a Midwestern farmer struggling to rejuvenate his crops after the nuclear attack. The film was broadcast to much international publicity and controversy in 1983.

After his retirement in 1985, Harvey continued to be active, teaching film production at the University of Kansas, adjudicating films for the American Film Festival and the Kansas Film and Video Festival, and directing and acting in plays for the Lawrence Community Theater. On March 13, 1996, just weeks before his death from pancreatic cancer, Harvey was honored by a gathering of over seventy friends and former co-workers at the old Centron film studios in Lawrence, which by that time housed the University of Kansas film school. The building's large sound stage---for a time the largest sound stage in the Midwest---was given Harvey's name. A metal plate on the door states, "Herk Harvey Sound Stage/May all who enter here find his spirit of excellence."

Carnival of Souls

However, if it hadn't been for Harvey's one feature film, made independent of Centron, titled Carnival of Souls, a 1961 horror film that bombed upon its first release but later attracted a devoted cult following, probably no one in the general public would have heard of Herk Harvey. Harvey was driving home to Kansas from Los Angeles, where he had been shooting an industrial film, when he spotted an eerie pavilion-like structure standing on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, and, intrigued by its isolated location and "weird" look, he suddenly hatched the idea of making his first feature film, something about "dead people dancing in a ballroom on the Great Salt Lake." Harvey commissioned Centron co-worker and best friend, John Clifford, to write the screenplay for the film. Meanwhile, Harvey raised $30,000 with the help of local businessmen, cast the movie, and scouted locations. Within a couple of weeks, the script was completed, and after casting the lead for the film, Candace Hilligoss, in New York, Harvey took a leave of absence from Centron and shot the film in two weeks on location in Lawrence and in Salt Lake City. Much of the cast (with the exception of the lead) were found in Lawrence, many of them having appeared in local civic theater presentations and in Centron films prior to this feature. The crew was made up mostly of Harvey's co-workers at Centron, as well. The film was extremely low-budget and met with a mixed reception at its premiere in Lawrence, and bombed further when it was placed in the hands of a crooked and almost-bankrupt distributor. But in 1989, after Harvey had already retired from Centron, young people and film buffs across the nation began to take notice of the old horror film and praised and admired the eeriness and haunting feeling it was able to provoke without turning to the blood and guts and what Harvey termed "physical horror" that was a common feature of horror films. They also praised the fact that the film had accomplished all of these things with meagre financing. Demand for the film grew, and Harvey and John Clifford agreed to release the original film on home video and make a series of appearances in movie houses and film festivals across the nation to talk about the film. Carnival of Souls ended up winning several festival awards and was the subject of hundreds of articles and favorable reviews in many prestigious newspapers and magazines. A revival of interest in the film was taking place. Eventually, an exhaustive and popular DVD release of the film, complete with countless extras regarding the making of the film, the film's locations, the life and career of Harvey, and Centron, was released by the prestigious Criterion Collection. Unfortunately, Harvey did not live to see the release and popularity of this DVD, for he died of pancreatic cancer in 1996, at his home in Lawrence. Other than his wife of about twenty-seven years, Pauline, Harvey's other survivors included two nieces and one nephew.

Filmography

Selected Centron Educational and Industrial Films The following are the Centron films in which Harvey is known to have appeared in, prior to becoming a director at Centron:

• Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance (1949) - A short educational film on public speaking stressing that audiences are impressed by what they see as well as what they hear. Harvey appears briefly preparing to make a speech.
• Speech: The Function of Gestures (1949) - Another public speaking film, this time on the use of gestures. Harvey plays a starring role as a young speaker who is in demand because he uses gestures to help paint a picture of what he describes in his words to his audience.
• Speech: Using Your Voice (1950) - A public speaking film on the correct way to use your voice, in which Harvey appears briefly for only fifteen seconds or so, speaking in front of an American flag.
• Other People's Property (1951) - Educational film made for school classrooms, in which Harvey plays an elementary school teacher, Mr. Kraft, who is despised by one of his students, and whose classroom is the victim of that student's stink-bomb prank, which results in serious property damage.

The following are the 42 Centron films that Harvey is known to have directed (out of an estimated 400 to 450):

• Health: Your Food (1953) - This short educational film, intended for elementary school classrooms, dealing with nutrition and the value of good foods for children, featured puppets as supporting cast to the lead character, a boy.
• A Citizen Participates (1953) - A film starring local actress Frances Feist (who played the boarding house lady in Carnival of Souls) about how the Kiwanis Club of McLouth, Kansas decides to bring a doctor to their community. Unfortunately, the "doctor" is a quack, and Feist's character, Mary Wilkens, soon falls into his trap. The film was recognized by Scholastic Teachers Magazine as one of the ten Best Educational Films of 1953.
• Star 34 (1954) - Promotional film produced for the Kansas Industrial Development Commission, made to encourage tourism in the state of Kansas. Harvey not only directed but starred in the film, playing one half of a married couple who must travel to Kansas and see the wondrous sights of the state in order to claim an inheritance. His wife was played by Shirley Rae, a KU drama friend. The film was shown by over 90 television stations, representing almost a quarter of the total number in the United States at this time. The average audience viewing the film was estimated at 95,000, with a total of nearly nine million viewers. These TV stations were located in forty states as well as soon-to-be states Hawaii and Alaska. The film was later selected by the Film Council of America for showing, along with other outstanding educational films, over WCBS-TV in the New York area.
• George Tackles the Land (1954) - This was one of Centron's first "industrial" rather than strictly "educational" productions. It was made for the Spencer Chemical Company of Kansas City, Missouri, and tells the story of a farmer, George Johnson (played by Centron editor Dan Palmquist, who portrays a gas station attendant in Carnival of Souls) who has some unusual ideas about how to grow crops. Indeed, George has no success with his farm, until the Spencer Chemical Company's mascot, Mr. N ("N" for "nydrogen") shows George the correct way to produce the much-desired crops. "Mr. N," a little midget, elfin man, was played by Billy Barty, a well-known television personality of the time. This was the first film on which Harvey worked with a well-known professional actor.
• Life to Save (1954) - Film produced for the American Medical Association. Mary Wilkens (played by Frances Feist) begins to feel ill and consults a Dr. Jacksburg, who gives her several months' worth of treatment. However, Dr. Jacksburg is a medical quack, and one day Mary suffers a very bad spell and finds herself bed-ridden. Mary's husband Fred, played by Kansas City actor Art Ellison who played the Minister in Carnival of Souls, soon begins to suspect medical quackery and consults a real doctor, "Dr. Jim" (played by Shelby Storck), who discovers that Mary is gravely ill and rushes her to the hospital. While Mary is undergoing surgery, Dr. Jim, Fred, and the men from the AMA work hard to prove that Dr. Jacksburg is a quack, and when they do, a warrant is put out for Jacksburg's arrest. Meanwhile, Dr. Jim performs lifesaving surgery on Mary, and everyone lives happily ever after---although Dr. Jim admits that there will still be medical quacks but that bringing them to justice is his duty, "when there is a life to save." While designed primarily as a half-hour public service program for the nation's television stations, the film was also distributed nationwide for use by schools, civic clubs, rural groups, and the general public.
• Sir Johnny On the Spot (1954) - This unusual film has a cast of puppets, manipulated by a Kansas group of performers known as the Jupiter Marrionettes, and tells the story of a princess who must pick the first dragon she sees at dawn to ride with her during the big castle parade. Two brothers compete for being the first dragons she sees, but during the night, when the princess sees one of them, she decides that he has to be the first one she sees at dawn. However, that dragon sleeps too late, and the enraged princess instead chooses the sleepy dragon's brother. The lesson is you must be ready and awake for everything. The film may or may not have been originally shot and/or released in 1954. However, the print of the film seen by this author was presented by "Centron Educational Films," a distribution subsidiary that didn't exist until 1970, and the copyright date is 1974. It is guessed that the film was originally either prepared for or aired on television (Centron had an aborted TV series project with the Jupiter Marionettes) in the 1950s, but nothing came of it, so the film was polished up a bit and re-released through CEF twenty years later.
• The Sound of a Stone (1955) - A historically and culturally significant film, directed and co-written by Harvey and produced for the board of economic and social relations of the Methodist Church. The film's main goal was to answer the reckless charges coming from Senator Joseph McCarthy and his cohorts, and told the story of a high school teacher named Mr. Jordan who assigns a book to his English class which also, unbeknownst to the teacher, just happens to be on a list of subversive publications. A hot-under-the-collar parent, when finding this out, begins circulating the rumor that the teacher is infiltrating not only their schools but their church (where Mr. Jordan also serves as a Sunday school instructor) with Communist influence. But then the parent, learning that his son, editor of the school paper, is also accused of being a communist, takes the trouble to read the book. This parent tells a meeting of the school board that Mr. Jordan is not guilty of subversion, but just as things seem back to normal again, a stone crashes through the window of the wrongfully accused Jordan with a note taped to it, reading, "Jordan---You didn't fool us. Get out while you can." The film then effectively ends without resolution to this problem. Harvey appears in the film as a truck driver. The film won several awards.
• Why Study Home Economics? (1955) - Short educational film produced for school classrooms, encouraging teenage girls to enroll in home economics classes in high school. Harvey also appears as a construction worker in one scene, and Harvey's first wife, actress Bernice Brady, appears as a home economics teacher.
• Rebound (1956) - This film received the first place award in the Health Category in the Seventh Annual Stamford, Connecticut Film Festival, produced for the purpose of showing the rehabilition program for the blind in nearby Topeka, Kansas. The film was produced for the State Services for the Blind, of the Kansas State Department of Social Welfare. Harvey played quite effectively a man who is blinded for life, and his real-life wife Bernice Brady plays his wife. The film shows Harvey first in denial, spending his days storming around his home, frustrated, and for hours rocking in a rocking chair, but then finally admitting he is blind permanently and entering the Rehabilitation Center in Topeka.
• Beyond the Towers (1957) - Documentary/public relations film made for the University of Kansas aimed mostly at attracting new students to the school.
• What About School Spirit? (1958) - Educational film produced mainly for high school classrooms, discussing the subject of school spirit, ending with a question posed to the classroom viewing audience, "What about school spirit?" Harvey also appears in the film as a guest visiting a high school.
• The Snob (1958) - Considered one of the finest "social guidance" films ever produced. It tells the story of a snobbish high school girl, examines her inner feelings and opinions, as well as those of the more socially successful group who reluctantly invite her to one of their weekly Friday-night parties. One party guest calls her a "snob," and she runs out of the house, sobbing. Cutting between shots of the teenage group, and of the girl leaning on a tree, crying, the film ends without resolution, the narrator asking, "What do you think?" Local teen actress Vera Stough, who later went on to act on Broadway and in Hollywood, plays the lead, and director Harvey's wife Bernice Brady plays Vera's mother.
• Manners in Public (1958) - Short educational film based on one of McGraw-Hill's elementary school textbooks on manners in public. Harvey appears twice, as an irritated man on a city bus, and later as a man walking down the street side-by-side with a becspectacled woman.
• What About Prejudice? (1959) - One of the more effective of Centron's earlier classroom films, this one tells the story of Bruce Jones, a character who is criticized and detested by his classmates just because of his race, religion, or social background. However, Bruce's face is never revealed, so we never know what excactly is the reason he is discriminated against, but also so he can represent any such discriminated person. Harvey appears near the end as a doctor in a hospital.
• Operation Grass Killer (1961) - An industrial film produced for Monsanto Chemical Company, announcing two new chemicals to be used by farmers on their crops, Randox and Vegadex. Harvey appears near the end as a satisfied customer, a farmer.
• Dance, Little Children (1961) - A film produced for the Kansas Department of Health, cautioning teenagers against premarital sex and warning them of the perils of venereal disease. Harvey appears in the film as a disgruntled father. The film won several awards.
• To Touch a Child (1962) - One of the first Centron films Harvey and writer John Clifford worked on together, this one was produced for the Mott Foundation of Flint, Michigan and was a documentary about Flint's new after-school activities program. Clifford says that Harvey and Centron cameraman Bob Rose shot the whole half-hour film on location in Flint with only local volunteer help. This film is credited with revolutionizing the after-class use of public school buildings across the United States.
• Jamaica, Haiti and the Lesser Antilles (1964) - This was one of the series of seven geography films on South America that Harvey, cameraman Norm Stuewe, and soundman Bill Sollner shot on location there. During that trip, Harvey and his crew encountered many problems, including officers at the Mexican border refusing them permission to take their equipment over the border, and the crew being arrested by Haitian guards during a time that the infamous dictator, Papa Doc, was creating a great deal of havoc throughout the nation. It was also during this time that Carnival of Souls was abruptly pulled from theater screens when the distribution company went bankrupt and the company president fled to Europe. When Harvey and crew returned to Kansas, not only did they find that Harvey's feature film and the funds from it had disappeared, but as they were leaving the plane they were also told that the President, John F. Kennedy, had just been assassinated. Incidentally, a classical guitarist ranked third in the world, Alfredo Almeda, providing the unique musical background to the narration of this and the other films in the series.
• Dealer's Choice (1966) - One of many films produced by Centron during the 1960s for stockholders meetings and sales meetings of large industrial corporations. Often, these special films featured top entertainment stars, such as Ed Ames, Eddie Albert, Walter Pidgeon, George Gobel, and so on, doing original skits and music composed and written by Centroners.
• AC Spring Sales Meeting (1968) - Another sales meeting film, produced for AC Delco, and featuring Anita Bryant in an original song-and-dance routine.
• Tell It Like It Is (1968) - Film produced for Distributive Education (DE) explaining to high school students what this program was all about.
• Rowan and Martin On the Driveway One Fine Day (1969) - Sales meeting film produced for Phillips 66 featuring the comedy team of Rowan and Martin in original skits, demonstrating how to and how not to deal with customers on the service station driveway.
• Oxidation Ditches---One Answer to Manure Disposal (1970) - This industrial film was produced for John Deere, and was directed and edited by Harvey. Centron was represented by this film in the Agriculture category in the finals of the 1970 American Film Festival.
• Livestock Rustling---It's Big Business (1971) - This industrial film, produced for John Deere, was, like the previous film, entered into the American Film Festival in the agriculture, forestry, and mining cateogry, and was awarded with a Blue Ribbon Award.
• Steel: From Inland (1973) - Educational film on the workings of a steel plant, with location shooting in actual plants under dirty and condensed working conditions. However, Harvey and crew managed some spectacular photography.
• Down is Up (1976) - Safety film made to warn construction workers about the dangers and time loss they might suffer when they have an accident and their machines and equipment are useless and then need to be repaired. It was produced for Caterpillar by Harvey, and filmed on location in Louisiana. Harvey plays a foreman in several early scenes, and also does voice-over narration for the scenes.
• Pork: The Meal with a Squeal (1977) - Educational film distributed by Centron's own distribution outlet, Centron Educational Films. This film is fairly straight-forward, not really living up to the silly potential of its life, but also thoroughly informative on the subjects of pork and hogs, which was its real purpose. Harvey not only narrated and directed the film, he played a veteranarian in one scene.
• The XT Connections (1979) -Industrial film announcing Caterpillar's new "XT" hoses used on their tractors. Harvey and a three-man crew (cameraman, assistant cameraman, and soundman) spent four weeks on the road collecting the film and sound tracks. The finished film was distributed through the Calvin Company of Kansas City, Missouri.
• Shake Hands with Danger (1980) - This safety film was done for Caterpillar, depicting accident situations related to the servicing of heavy equipment, and dramatized by American stuntmen. The film emphasizes the need for constant vigilance on the job. It was one of only four American-made films selected as official U.S. entries in the 21st International Industrial Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. It won the first-place Gold Cup Award in the category of Safety Education Films, marking only the second time in 10 years that an American film received a first prize at this particular international event. Additional recognition came to the film through a Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival, a Golden Eagle Award at CINE of Washington, D.C., a Chris Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival, a silver plaque at the International Film and TV Festival of New York and designation as the best public education film by the Public Relations Society of America.
• Train Talk (1980) - This safety film produced for Union Pacific Railroad received a Certificate of Creative Excellence at the U.S. Industrial Film Festival and high honors from the National Committee on Films for Safety.
• Korea Overview: The Face of Korea (1980) - One of a series of educational geography films directed by Harvey and produced for the Republic of Korea, this particular film was also narrated by Harvey and involved a great deal of location shooting in Korea.
• Korea: A Rich Heritage (1980) - A geography film produced for the Republic of Korea, the film received a Chris Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival and a Golden Eagle from CINE of Washington.
• You Have a Part in It (1980) - Produced for the AC Spark Plug Division of General Motors, this series of employee relations films received a Silver Medal at the International Film and TV Festival of New York.
• Signals: Read 'Em or Weep (1981) - This safety film produced for Caterpillar won honors at the CINE Film Festival in Washington, in the industrial methods and techniques category. It also won a Certificate of Creative Excellence at the U.S. Industrial Film Festival.
• Bidding Your Money Hello (1983) - Educational film designed to teach salesmen on how to effectively and successfully do their job.
• Making It As a Logger (1983) - Produced for Caterpillar, this industrial film was shot on location in Arkansas.
• Telemarketing I - Customer Services: A Backup Sales Force (1983) - One of a series of three films directed by Harvey and written by John Clifford on telemarketing and how to do it right. In this one, rules to follow for dealing with telephone inquiries are provided.
• Telemarketing II: Becoming a Pro on the Phone (1983) - This film stresses the importance of attitude in successful selling and gives some good ideas on how a new salesperson can deal with the negatives and positives that are a part of selling.
• Telemarketing III: Techniques for the Phone Sales Rep (1983) - This film utilizes a checklist of activities to follow during pre-call, call, and post-call sales efforts.
• Life Force (1984) - Produced for the Farm Credit System, this Harvey-directed film was recognized as "best motion picture" and also won the "best in cooperative communications" award among nearly 400 entries in 36 categories in the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives competition. In addition to the NCFC award, the film won a CINE Golden Eagle, and a Silver Award from the International Film & TV Festival of New York.
• Managing Stress Part I: The Time Bomb Within (1984) - Number one of a series of three films on how to manage and deal with stress.
• Managing Stress Part II: What the World Dishes Out (1984) - Number two of a series of three films on how to manage and deal with stress.
• Managing Stress Part III: What You Bring On Yourself (1984) - The last of a series of three films on how to manage and deal with stress.

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External links

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- The last two links are parts one and two, respectively, of a very informative, excellent interview with Herk Harvey dating from 1982, when he was still working for Centron and before Carnival of Souls fully grew into "art film" status. Information not only on Carnival of Souls, but on Harvey's professional and educational background prior to joining Centron, his work with Centron, his work as a director-actor in local community theater, and his own opinions and feelings concerning the horror film genre.

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