CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has been selected.
This essay on the history of the Centron Corporation appears in author Ken Smith’s Book “Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945–1970.” It is read here by writer and comedian Dana Gould.