Tim Frakes Productions

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    Here is a new video I produced for Lombard’s Helen Plum Library. The new, planned library location at 411 S. Main Street, Lombard (get it, 411… information… library) will be built on the site of the former Mr. Z’s Grocery story. The Helen Plum Library worked out an agreement with the Lombard Fire Department and…

  • Hephzibah Home in Oak Park, Illinois

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    What a privilege to help Hephzibah Home in Oak Park, Illinois produce a video presentation for their Hephzibah At Home Together 2021 Virtual Heart of Gold Gala! For more than a century, Hephzibah has offered short- and long-term group homes for abused and neglected children; child welfare and family services; foster care, adoption programs, and…

  • Common Good Promo Trailer

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    I’m excited to share a promo trailer for a new documentary I’m currently working on with the Lombard Historical Society. We are well into production and hope to have it finished by Spring 2021. For more information go to frakesproductions.com or contact the Lombard Historical Society at lombardhistory.org On a small network of curving, treelined…

  • Making Virtual a Reality

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    Making Virtual a Reality “This must be heaven,” says Shoeless Joe Jackson. “No. It’s Iowa,” writes W.P. Kinsella, in his 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe. 2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic has blurred the line between virtual and reality in the video production business. Much of my business involves generating content for or actually recording large fundraising…

  • All Citizens

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    Join us Sunday, June 7 at noon on Youtube for a special premier of our new documentary.     All Citizens The Lombard women who voted 29 years before the 19th amendment and the story of those who made it possible. On April 6, 1891 fifteen Lombard women, led by Chicago attorney  Ellen A.…

  • Save Your Memories!

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    Let us transfer your legacy VHS,VHS-C, 3/4, Hi8mm, Digital 8mm, 8mm and 16mm film, DV tape, DVD, BetaSP, or vinyl LP’s to modern digital formats.  Prices start as low as $12 per item for 7 items and up. Digital delivery via dropbox is free. Deliver via thumb drive or DVD is $15. Shipping charges apply…

  • Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago

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    Here is my latest documentary. Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago The summer of 1983, I was a 22 year old college intern standing behind an RCA TK-760 plumbicon three tube color broadcast studio camera in a tiny studio (known as the two-car garage) on the 44th floor of Chicago’s Kemper…

  • About Tim Frakes Productions Inc.

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    Hello. I’m Tim Frakes. Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production and post-production company based in Lombard, Illinois. We record, produce and post-produce in the Chicago area, across the United States and globally: We produce award winning documentaries, multi camera broadcast events including concerts, worship events and celebrations, development videos, marketing videos for…

  • Rescheduled: Community Showing of Sheldon Peck: Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times

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    Rescheduled! Community Showing of Sheldon Peck: Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times Thursday, February 7, 2019 Lombard Community Building 433 East Saint Charles Road, Lombard, IL 60148 6:00 – 6:45 PM Peck Homestead Tour 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Film and Q&A ? Sheldon Peck, Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times…

  • How About Some Gospel Music!

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    What A Fellowship – Rev. Clay Evans & the AARC Mass Choir from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. How about some Gospel music! The Rev. Dr. Clay Evans, Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was a major Gosple recording artist in the 1970’s and 80’s. Evans bought airtime on TV-38 and made regular appearances during…