Tim Frakes Productions

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  • Chennai India after the Tsunami

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    A month after the December 26, 2004 Tsunami that rocked countries bordering the Indian Ocean, I visited Chennai, India. Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is a city in Tamil Nadu. Chennai was hit by the wave, and was just beginning to recover when we arrived. Judging from this footage, it is hard to tell that…

  • The Weather Channel

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    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…

  • Mosaic TV closes with The Life of Apostle Peter

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    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…

  • YouTubeing East Africa

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    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…

  • ELCA Closes Mosaic Television with ‘The Life of Apostle Peter’

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    CHICAGO (ELCA) — “The Life of Apostle Peter” with host Rick Steves is the Dec. 1, 2007, issue of Mosaic Television, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It is also the final episode of the video series, which began in 1988. Mosaic Television was the quarterly video program produced by…

  • New Rick Steves/ELCA Web Site

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    The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has launched a new flash video web site featuring five Rick Steves videos. Faithful Travel features five programs produced by Tim Frakes for the ELCA including; The Life of Apostle Peter, Faithful Travels, The Life of Apostle Paul, Opening the Door to Luther and Weaving a Global Neighborhood.…

  • Beyond Tsunami

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    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…

  • Cubs Sunday Salute, WGN

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    WGN Cubs radio voices Ron Coomer and Pat Hughes gave our son, PFC Connor Frakes a shout-out at the Cubs game Sunday. Of course, Coomer butchered our name and got Connor’s MOS wrong. Connor is in the United States Army, 4th ID, 1-12 Infantry, currently deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan. But hey, it’s kind of cool…