Author: timfrakes
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The Weather Channel
About the only good thing connected to this year’s lousy Chicago winter weather is the call I got from The Weather Channel. John Thayer, an old pal from my TV-38 days is now the Senior Manager for Broadcast Operations. John referred me to Assignment Manager Eileen Winslow. It has been a few years since I…
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Mosaic TV closes with The Life of Apostle Peter
The Lutheran Magazine ran this story announcing the end of the Mosaic Video series and our Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves video. The Life of Apostle Peter with host Rick Steves is the final episode of Mosaic Television. Launched in 1988, Mosaic was the quarterly video program produced by ELCA Communication Services. It…
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A Walk from the Mount of Olives to the Old City
Today, some friends and I took a walk from Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives, down through the Kidron Valley and into the Old City of Jerusalem. These are some of the images in no particular order. The music is Ludwig Van Beethoven.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company…
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Visit with Christians of the Holy Land
My former boss, the Rev. Eric Shafer has asked me to join him and a group of clergy from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on a visit to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. This is my sixth trip to Israel/Palestine. I’ll be documenting the journey and recording some new…
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Bremerton Ferry Seattle, Washington
The Bremerton Ferry takes cars and passengers from Seattle to Kitsap County, Washington. I recorded this footage on the ferry and in Scenic Beach State Park the day after a wind storm swept through the Pacific Northwest, December, 2006. The storm downed trees and power lines. The organ music is composed by J.S. Bach and…
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Tribute to a Passport
My friend and colleague, Stephen Padre wrote this article for his blog “The Middle Buldge.” Stephen is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. He said it was fine if I posted it here. Any American who travels a lot, will enjoy this. Tribute to a PassportBy Stephen PadreI’m sorry, but I had to replace…
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YouTubeing East Africa
Internet video is changing the world. As developing nations leapfrog old communication technology in favor of new, digital Internet based forms of telling the story, a window of opportunity opens. In the fall of 2006 I was in Kitgum, Northern Uganda shooting footage for a documentary about forgiveness in the aftermath of war. During our…
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The Best Way to Rock and Roll
This is story from my archives. Back in 1998 my buddy Jim Parks and I did a story on Jim and Peter Mayer. The Mayer brothers are the sons of Lutheran missionaries. They grew up in Tamil Nadu, India. Today they play bass and lead guitar for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes…
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St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egypt
This video clip is from St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt. To get there, we took a taxi from Elat, Israel to the Egyptian border crossing at Taba. After paying the usual departure taxes and customs screenings, we walked into Egypt. The Egyptian customs officials pulled us into a side office and grilled us for fifteen…
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Tanzania Jubilee
This video recounts the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. I produced it back in 1992 in the Swahili language with the help of Lutheran Missionary Howard Olsen. The roots of organized Lutheranism in the nation now known as Tanzania had their origin in the late 19th century. The work began in 1887…