This is our 52nd – and final – weekly blog celebrating our 30 years of creating video here at Midland Video Productions so it’s time to look back at the very beginning. This week there is no video in this blog entry, just a newspaper clipping. 30 years ago the Milwaukee Sentinel or the Milwaukee … Read more
We’ll get to the “blood” part later. But first… Incense is one of the things that makes Midnight Mass such a spectacle and there was plenty of it in the air on Christmas Eve in 1995 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Cathedral Square in downtown Milwaukee. We were producing a live … Read more
For this project we needed to do more than build a better mousetrap. We needed to build a better mousetrap factory, which we did – in our studio. In addition to creating a set, we also needed to hire nearly every working actor in Milwaukee and quite a few from Chicago. The project was for … Read more
We’ve done a number of projects for the MACC Fund over the years but for over a decade we produced a piece for their golf outing. We’d set up early at Tripoli Country Club with our 30’ Winnebago and send out crews in golf carts to capture the action. Then it all had to be … Read more
Popcorn Queen. Popcorn Parade. Popcorn 5K Run. Popcorn Dinner. Popcorn Float. You name it; they make it out of popcorn in Valparaiso, Indiana. We were there to shoot the Orville Redenbacher Popcorn Festival in the summer of 1981 and we learned quickly that the locals are very serious about these kernels. This extended weekend of … Read more