Goldner, Orville

Film producer and professor. Goldner, born May 18,1906, attended California College of Arts and Crafts 1924-25, where he met and married fellow artist Dorothy "Dot" Thompson (October 1925). Goldner began his long and varied career in motion pictures in 1927 at Kinex Studio in Hollywood as a technical director, designer, and creator of animated films and special effects. During this time period he worked on the classic King Kong (1933), about which he later co-authored a book with George Turner, The Making of King Kong (1975). His work shifted to factual film during World War II when he headed the Navy's Training Film and Motion Picture Branch from 1942 to 1946, and the rest of his career would be spent in education and factual film production. After the war, Goldner worked first as Director of Production (1946-49) and later as a contract overseas film producer (1949-52) for Curriculum Films in New York. Goldner taught educational media courses and served as Director of the Audio-Visual Center at San Francisco State University from 1954 to 1960, at which time he left to become Director of Audio-Visual Services for the Panorama colorslide program at Columbia Record Club. From 1967 to 1971, he was a professor of Mass Communications and Director of the Audio-Visual Center at Chico State College.

From the description of Papers, 1926-1982. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 32170561