Made in celebration of the 1989 theatrical rerelease of CARNIVAL OF SOULS, the following documentary was produced by Bill Shaffer of KTWU Channel 11 in Topeka, Kansas. A brief tour of the modern-day locations follows.
This video essay on CARNIVAL OF SOULS by critic and filmmaker David Cairns was produced in 2016.
Veteran broadcaster Ed Yeates made a documentary about the Saltair resort for Salt Lake City’s KCPX-TV in 1966, adapting it from a radio version he’d made while a college student. The excerpts shown here feature the dilapidated resort around the time CARNIVAL OF SOULS was shot there. Note that th...
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 b...