Bill Curtis Video Production

03/12/2025

New on You Tube: updated short video on 1993 5-day Boat excursion on Prince William Sound...

In July ,1993, I was assigned to shoot footage from the Auklet on Prince William Sound, it was a 5-day trip with glaciers, wildlife and spectacular shoreline...

02/17/2025

I thought I would also post this here. I'm getting to be an old guy and I've spent the last 2 years writing a book, that will be published some time this Summer and available on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble. It is a biography which includes my 30 + years in Indian Education, with a number of years in both Utah and Kansas. It also includes my summers of video work with the U.S. Forest Service and some video work in the Philippines. More than that it is a testimony about God's faithfulness to me and his ability and desire to show Himself to me in so many visible ways. I have seen miracles in my own life and even more in the lives of others.

10/11/2024

Went back home to Ohio for a reunion in September (2024) and returned also to the church of my youth, that has always had a great music program. I sang that Sunday with Westminster Choir (Dayton) and when I came home I downloaded the anthems from the streamed service.
I love to have non-royalty music to practice my video editing and used some of the footage I shot for over 16 years for the Forest Service in Alaska..... I also did a third video with a copyrighted music piece- (also choral music), Rutter's "Gaelic Blessing".: https://youtu.be/k-2DoEgKd3o
https://youtu.be/OMCcVdNQjCE
https://youtu.be/O0ECYadKLKA

A favorite choral work that I've added some of my video photography

06/21/2024

NEW COVER PHOTO- In 1996 the Federal Government and the State of Alaska was in the middle of the $3 Billion settlement over the EXXON Valdez oil spill a few years previously. Part of the money would go to reestablish & preserve wildlife habitat along Prince William Sound. I had the fun of flying in this helicopter for 3 days to shoot footage of the entire shoreline of the Sound. My video camera was on a mount under the nose of the helicopter. We landed a number of times to clean bugs off the camera lens. We were very lucky to have 3 clear days in a row.

05/02/2024

For Memorial Day 2024, I have received permission to post the entire original documentary “In the Tradition of the Warrior- A History of Modern-day Comanche Veterans”.
This was a production that I produced with Mike Tosee for the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma in 2009. It was probably the largest production that Mike and I did together and I like to think it was our best work. Our work was greatly enhanced by the expertise of Comanche Tribal Military Historian, Lanny Asapermy.
It is the 88-minute story that explains why American Indians were the largest minority group in the United States to enlist in WWI and WWII. It also tells of the Comanche Code talkers. What is the importance of the warrior tradition in all American Indian Tribes? Why are Veterans Day and Memorial Day a time of major celebrations in Indian Country today? Listen to fascinating veterans stories of battles in the South Pacific, Vietnam, Korea and the middle-east.

Produced by Bill Curtis & Mike Tosee for the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma in 2009. Fascinating stories of courage and a discussion of the reasons why American...

02/16/2024

The original video of our CHS folk-singing group reunion at Lake Tahoe!

After 40 years the Centerville High School (Ohio) folk singing group the "Ten of Us" held their first reunion in Lake Tahoe. That reunion has continued perio...

01/25/2024

This is a piece I produced for the U.S. Forest Service in 1999 on the Survey of Vegetation that is done every ten years in Alaska.

This is a video I produced for USDA Forests Service and The Pacific Northwest Research Station in Anchorage, Alaska in 1999.

08/26/2023

PROJECT TWO. The other project I found was one that I shot in Summer 1990 for the US Forest Service in Alaska. It was one of two projects that summer that were shot in the old 3/4 inch tape format. This was an interesting project that was never made into a completed video production.
The subject was Fisheries Management Projects being done on each of the ranger districts in both the Tongass and the Chugach National Forests. The footage was compiled onto one tape but nothing was done with it after that point. This is too bad because some of the projects were interesting and the locations, breath-taking. Last week I just edited on an opening title and a few graphics. Some may be interested to note that much of the footage that was shot was videoed within miles of the location of the popular National Geographic reality TV Series "Port Protection".
This footage has never been viewed by any of the biologists that shared their projects 33 years ago.

In 1990 I was detailed to the Forest Service in Alaska to shoot footage and to produce a video about the Copper River Delta Institute. It was a two week trip...

08/26/2023

This summer Haskell Indian Nations University paid my way to come up from Alabama to Lawrence, where I spent a week going through 100's of video tapes that we shot through the years from 1979- 2006. Original footage was on early betamax, 3/4in U-Matic, Professional BetaCam SP Videotapes. The footage has held up pretty well over so many years.
I found two old projects that I'd forgotten about over the years.
The first project was done while I was still an instructor at Intermountain Inter-Tribal School in Brigham City, Utah. I had been detailed to a brand new BIA Office that had moved onto our huge campus, which housed the 800-student boarding high school and the U.S. Indian Law Enforcement Training Center. The new office that was being created was going to have a video production unit formed to produce for the Tribes and the Bureau. No one had been hired for that function but I was brought over that summer to produce a video about the Indian Police Academy and since that summer they had several of the first women cadets, they became the focus. This was my very first video production. The equipment was primitive in comparison to what we would have in a couple of years. The camera was an early color video version that recorded on the original Beta-Max format tapes and we had a very early tape-to-tape editing system for a "cuts-only" edited version. The video ended up being used to promote the video services of our new office (OTAT) at a number of "dog & pony shows" held at Tribal leadership meetings. And I did get the job to run the unit in 1980.

In 1979 I was given my first video assignment for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brigham City, Utah. I was given a single tube color video camera that recor...

05/25/2023

The New Memorial Day Video:

The 466th Bomb Group (H) was a B-24 Liberator Group located at Station 120 Attlebridge - The base was outside of Weston-Longville, Norfolk in England. They w...