Category: Interesting Places
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Roman Ruins, Perge Turkey
Perge, Turkey is a world class archeological site. An important Roman shipping port during its heyday, it was abandoned centuries ago. Now, the only visitors come on tour busses from Side. It must have been a large city. The ruins include a stadium, a theater, public baths that still hold water and a colossal arched…
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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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Seattle Fremont District
I recorded this footage in December 2006 while on a shoot in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle’s Fremont District is a funky, eclectic neighborhood on the cities north side. This artsy part of town features a statue of Vladimir Lenin, a troll under the bridge an outdoor market and lot’s of interesting people.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions…
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St. Peter Goes to the Dump: A New ELCA video
Rick Steves posted this story on his blog. It is the tale of a missing videotape, lost during our recent Rome production on “The Life of Apostle Peter.” For a look at all five of our collaborations go to: http://www.elca.org/communication/ricksteves/. Posted by Rick Steves, December 13, 2007Squeezing a few days in Rome between a Greece…
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Women in the Early Church
Who were the women of the early church? What was their role in the formation of the faith? Why do we know so little about them? We recorded this documentary on location in Rome, Italy. The video tells the story of women in the first three centuries of Christianity. We tell stories about women like…
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Nekemte, Ethiopia, Sunday Morning
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Jim Quattrocki and I recorded this footage in Nekemte, Ethiopia, a small market town west of Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is a Lutheran Church that began in Eritrea in 1899 when Swedish missionaries arrived. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions…
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Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey
Zamzam a Missionary Odyssey Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey is a 1992 documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America while I worked for Video Impressions, a production company in Aurora, Illinois. Jim Quattrocki did most of the camera work on interviews recorded in Massachusetts, Kansas and Chicago. Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey…
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Children’s Peace Camp in Ramallah
Love Thy Neighbor The Living nonviolence peace camp is a ministry of Love Thy Neighbor, an organization dedicated to provide educational resources and programs about the plight of Palestinians in Palestine/Israel and to support both peoples’ deepening commitment to nonviolence as the way to bring a just peace for themselves and their neighbors.
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The Life of Apostle Paul with Rick Steves
I recorded this documentary in 2004 in Greece and Turkey while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Travel expert and faithful Lutheran Rick Steves came along as on-camera host. Rick also did most of the work on the script. Jim Parks edited the footage. About two thousand years ago Roman soldiers executed Jesus…
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Beyond Tsunami
This is a video I put together after the Tsunami. My pals, Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I went to Tamil Nadu, India one month after the big Tsunami disaster on Christmas, 2005. Jim did most of the videography. Some of it is mine. The actual disater footage comes from a wedding guy we met…