Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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Premier Promo Secrets of Hidden Lake
Premier Promo Secrets of Hidden Lake from Tim Frakes on Vimeo.Hi, I’m Tim Frakes. For 30 years, my family and I have lived across the road from the DuPage County Forest Preserve’s Hidden Lake. I’ve trekked nearly every square inch. And on my walks, I became curious about the people who lived here in the…
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I’ve been everywhere, man!
Happy December! Travel, I’ve had my share, man. 2023 was perhaps our busiest. I’m thinking the post-pandemic reality prompted our non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients to make up for lost ground. 22 different clients and more individual videos than I can count. Here’s a brief rundown. The Rural Community Assistance Partnership led the…
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The Secrets of Hidden Lake
Recently I treated myself to a present. It’s a framed map by Albert F. Scarf titled Indian Trails and Villages of Chicago and of Cook Counties (1804). It’s part of a new documentary we are producing with the Lombard Historical Society on the history of the DuPage County Forest Preserve Hidden Lake. This beautiful piece…
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Common Good Does Elmhurst!
This Wednesday evening we will show a portion of our documentary, Common Good, followed by Q&A. Elmhurst Art Museum 150 Cottage Hill Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 Wednesday, September 22, 2021 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Free. No registration required In partnership with the Backyard Caucus, video producer Tim Frakes presents his newest documentary about the…
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Lombard Cycling Classic
Lombard Cycling Classic 2021 from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. Tuesday, July 20, 2021, we were out recording as the DuPage Sports Commission brought competitive cycling to Lombard with the Lombard Cycling Classic. As part of the Intelligentsia Cup Series, the Lombard Cycling Classic was a one-day, all-day, event that welcomed amateur and professional cyclists, and…
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Goodbye Mr. Z’s, Hello New Helen Plum Library
The Helen Plum Library in Lombard, Illinois (my home town) has asked me to tell stories during construction of their new library. Yesterday they began demolition of the vacant Mr. Zee grocery store. It’s hard for the town because the family owned grocery was an important part of the fabric of Lombard. The Library Board…
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Goodbye Mr Z’s
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…
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Common Good Promo Trailer
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…
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Making Virtual a Reality
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…
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All Citizens
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.…