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What a cast!!!! Mr. T, Liberace, The Blues Brothers, Columbo, Joan Rivers, The “Where’s the Beef?” Lady, Boy George and MICHAEL JACKSON. When we put on a show, WE PUT ON A SHOW! (OK. OK. They were all celebrity impersonators, but still….) The year was 1985, the client was Sentry Insurance and the project was … Read more

boston-store

I don’t know what you were doing 30 years ago this week, but we clearly remember our November 1980. We had only been open for business a few months and we were about to create more than twenty 30-second spots for Boston Store in one week. After much negotiating, the Pabst Mansion had allowed us … Read more

jail

If this is your vision of life inside the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, think again! The Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) is a high-rise, medium security correctional facility at 10th and State Streets in downtown Milwaukee with a capacity of 1,024 offenders – and a video production crew. Our job was to create a training … Read more

Oh the Places We’ve Been

November 3rd, 2010 | Posted by admin in Production Diary - (0 Comments)
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“Oh the Places We’ve Been”- A collection of interesting shooting locations. Coal mines, operating rooms, nuclear power and sewage treatment plants, boardrooms and factory floors…. We’ve spent time in all of them over the past 30 years in Wisconsin and most of the other 50 states. But we always have a special fondness for the … Read more

Badger Meter

October 26th, 2010 | Posted by admin in Production Diary - (0 Comments)
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Projects often start with a challenge. And a challenge is what we faced when we started putting together a video to celebrate Badger Meter’s 100th anniversary. Why? Well, telling the story of the very early days of the company would take at least a minute or two of the video and the only visual we … Read more

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