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July 20, 2003
OBITUARIES / John Harris, 85;
Film Maker Won
Achievement Award
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-----Film
producer John C. Harris who was an annual
participant at the film festivals in Cannes,
France, during the past four decades selling and
promoting his many films, died in his sleep July
20, at the Veterans Hospital in Honolulu. He was
85.
-----Cinema
Prize, which awarded him its Harrison Carroll
Achievement Award in 1971, for "Star Maker," a 1970
on-location movie, featuring Wendel Corey.
-----Harris,
was born May 4, 1918, in Chemnitz,
Germany.
When it became East Germany it was renamed
Karl
Marxstad
and since Germany's reunification regained its old
name.
-----
Most of
John's films were produced in Europe, whose many
credits include adapting John Carr's "Star Makers"
which Harris released in the U.S. in 1970, starring
Wendel Corey, Troy Cory and Barbara Valentin. The
Berlin movie production fostered Barbara Valentin
and Troy Cory into major German film and television
personalities. This was Wendel's last movie. He
wanted to see his German homeland before his
death.
-----Harris
also was the co-producer of independent films in
the late 60s and throughout 2000s, including
"Christmas
Around the
World,"
starring Troy Cory, Priscilla Cory and the late
German singer Manuela; "Blue
Hawaii"
starring Elvis Presley Jr., and Ron Rice's Hawaiian
Tropic Beauty Pageant. He also produced some of the
Hawaiian Tropic and documentary segments for the
Troy Cory Show, since the mid-70s. He defined his
life style, as a "Lebenskuenstler", an artist in
the business of life, a man that manages life by
his wits. John specialized in TV productions that
included things of beauty. Miss Film World, was one
of his life long projects.
-----He
served in the Merchant Marines during World War II.
Harris began his career in films as an "extra" at
Culver City Studios, then moved on to publicity and
film marketing, before becoming a film
producer.
-----In
an interview with Television Int'l Magazine in
2000, Harris said that, "to learn the business, he
had just boldly walked onto movie sets and watched
other producers as they were presenting their ideas
to the directors." His mentor was Mike Todd. He
said his interest, were in film productions that
were shot on-location -- to get that natural
documentary look and to keep cost down. He began to
"see" the finished film, as he used to say, "when
his investors paid him in full".
When he began
in films,
iit was
old Hollywood. He told Television International
Magazine that in the 70s throughout the 1980s,
on-location directors rarely used 35mm for
on-location-shoots. They'd use 16mm short-ends,
purchased from Studio Film Exchange, in Hollywood.
John was the first to use video in some of his
musical scenes.
-----"After
each day of shooting, we'd work hard to put the
film into a first cut presentation, then showed it
to the "on-line producer" in a editing room." He
said, "On small budgets, we pointed out, squibbed a
few budgetary notes and then we were paid for the
next week's shooting of the film. Later on
everything that was shot on film we transferred to
video and edited it that way, until it was
finished."
-----He
had no living survivors. His business partners in
his 35 year old-company, United American Pictures,
include producer, Safa Al-Bayati and web DVD Video
distributor, VRA TelePlay Pictures. vratv.com.
-----
Memorial
Services have been arranged by Josie Cory, to be
held at the St. Charles Catholic Church, 10800
Moorepark Street, in Toluca Lake. The service takes
place in Our Lady Chapel, at 10:00 AM, on Thursday,
July 31, 2003. The church was the inspiration for
"Christmas Around The World". More information can
be obtained from Josie Cory at 323-462-1099 or
josie@smart90.com. Go to: www.soulfind.com, for
jpeg photos.
-----In
lieu of flowers, Safa Al-Bayati, said donations
should be made to the Motion Picture &
Television Fund, 4323 Riverside Drive, Burbank,
California 91505-4044.
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