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Karen Adey Loveland (June 15, 1942 - December 29, 2018) was an American filmmaker. She worked as an audiovisual producer and director at the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 2015.[1]
Career[edit]
As a 1964 graduate of American University[2], Loveland apprenticed creating short films and documentaries under designer-filmmakers Ray and Charles Eames and NBC producer Charles Fisher. After assisting with production on the Smithsonian-commissioned half-hour documentary, Smithsonian Institution (1964), Charles Eames recommended Loveland be hired as a production assistant for “film and broadcasting projects of the Office of Public Information/Office of Public Affairs.”[3]
When William C. Grayson was appointed Chief of the Smithsonian’s film and broadcasting in spring 1966, Loveland became Audio Visual Production Specialist and Grayson’s second-in-command.[3] One of the early productions Grayson and Loveland worked with NBC Television on was a program called, "The Enormous Egg," a children's story of a dinosaur based on a book by Oliver Butterworth, which was broadcast in 1968.[4] The hour-long television program was "a children's drama about a boy who "hatches" a triceratops and takes it to the Smithsonian zoo [...] filmed at locations throughout Washington, including the zoo and the National Museum of Natural History."[5] The program broadcast of April 18, 1968 was directed by June Reig[6] and sponsored by the Sinclair Oil company, which used a dinosaur as its logo.
Exhibits Motion Picture Unit[edit]
By January 1968 the Smithsonian created an autonomous ‘Exhibits Motion Picture Unit’ with Loveland and cinematographer John Hiller working in close collaboration as its two core staffers.[3] According to the Smithsonian annual report to Congress, Smithsonian Year 1969, Loveland "heads the Exhibits film unit."[7]
Office of Telecommunications[edit]
Upon creation of SI Secretary S. Dillon Ripley’s formalized film, television, and radio production unit Office of Telecommunications in 1976, Loveland was already a prolific producer and director and would ultimately assume the position of Deputy Director of Smithsonian Productions until retiring from the position in 1998.
Through the Office of Telecommunications, Loveland and Smithsonian exhibitions designer Benjamin Lawless helmed the documentary film, 1876: Celebrating a Century, which featured a cameo by Charles Eames.[8] The film was directed by Loveland and produced to accompany the Smithsonian's American bicentennial exhibition, 1876.[9]
Publications[edit]
Together with her partner, National Museum of Natural History marine biologist Walter H. Adey, Loveland co-authored, Dynamic Aquaria: Building and Restoring Living Ecosystems, first published in 1991 and now in its fourth edition as of 2024.[10][11]
Awards[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Community Deaths". The Washington Post. February 10, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
- ^ "KAREN ADEY Obituary (2019) - Washington, DC - The Washington Post". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ a b c Maryan-George, Carol (August 31, 1998). "Museum Montage: A History Of Museum Film And Audiovisual Use At The Smithsonian Institution, c. 1950-1980" [Masters Thesis]. Washington, DC: A Thesis submitted to The Faculty of Columbian School ofArts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. (published 1998).
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "The Enormous Egg & SI: Uncle Beazley Comes to the Smithsonian" (PDF). The Smithsonian Torch. July 1967. p. 3.
- ^ LaFollette, Marcel C. (2013). Science on American television: a history. Chicago, Ill.: The Univ. of Chicago Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-226-92199-0.
- ^ "NBC CHILDREN'S THEATRE: THE ENORMOUS EGG (TV)". www.paleycenter.org. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Smithsonian Institution (1969). Smithsonian Year 1969: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ended 30 June 1969. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 503.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Greuther, Marc (June–December 2018). "ASK: What Does a Past President of The Henry Ford Know About Working with Charles and Ray Eames?" (PDF). The Henry Ford Magazine: 8.
- ^ Post, Robert C. (April 2008). "Silvio A. Bedini, 1917-2007". Technology and Culture. 49 (2): 528. doi:10.1353/tech.0.0041. JSTOR 40061562. S2CID 108761038 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Adey, Walter H.; Loveland, Karen (2007). Dynamic aquaria: building and restoring living ecosystems (3rd ed.). London, UK Bulington, MA, USA: Academic. ISBN 978-0-12-370641-6.
- ^ "Dynamic Aquaria - 4th Edition". shop.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.