Columbus Junction Video History

The Columbus Junction Video project started with a need expressed by IBP and the Community Club and other organizations in the area to have a video to acclimate newcomers to the Columbus Community.  Paul Duncan got involved and was labeled “director”.   Paul then got in touch with Ron Cutkomp and Ken Purdy and handed the project off to them.   Ken and Ron then proceeded to produce the video from start to finish.

Ken and Ron shot all the video starting back in 1987 and finishing in 1988.  The aerial shots were taken with Ken and Ron flying and shooting the video.  All the video was shot with VHS cameras.  The video editing was done with two VHS recorders and the video was “spliced together”.  Then the music was added on another dubbing.    

Verl Lekwa was asked to write the script and Mark Shear did the announcing.  This was accomplished on a third dubbing and each time the video quality would degrade somewhat, but that was the only tools we had to work with in those days.   Text on the screen was done on an Apple computer.

Steve Sents and others organized a “World Premiere of the CJ Video” at Cedar Crest Country Club in Columbus Junction on March 12, 1988.  The event came with all the hoopla of a Hollywood premiere.   We were dressed in Tuxedos, had a meal, social time, plaster casts were made of our hand print,  and the video was played on several TV’s upstairs and downstairs at the Cedar Crest Country Club.

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Sue Pretz,  Mark Shear, Ron Cutkomp Ken Purdy, Verl Lekwa, Paula Duncan