Rainbow Productions Collection
The Rainbow Productions Collection consists of unedited B-roll footage from three travel films made by filmmaker Dirk Wales, founder and president of Rainbow Productions. Wales shot the footage in California, New Orleans, and New England, with the intention of creating a travel series on these regions, but the project was never completed.
Rainbow Productions was founded by Dirk Wales in 1972 in Chicago as a non-theatrical film production company. Rainbow Productions created educational, documentary, and sponsored films on subjects ranging from vandalism to addiction prevention and diabetes. Specializing in medical education, Rainbow made more than 80 films on the subject of anesthesia. Clients included Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Squibb Pharma, and Baxter Laboratories, among others. Filmmakers including Jim Morrissette, Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal, who would later go on to work with Kartemquin Films, worked on Rainbow Productions projects over the years.
Collection Items
- 1 Thoughts Are Things / 2 Revelation Outs (Audio)
- 1st Alex
- 1st Animation Outs
- 3 Tide Commercials: Mrs. Clay, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Yarmish
- Air Canada
- Air Canada First APO Mag Stripe / Funnier Side Eastern Canada
- Air Canada: Movies in Concert: "The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada"
- Alberto Culver "All Girl"
- Alberto Culver " Born Free"
- Alberto Culver "Calm" "Broker"
- Alberto Culver "Excitement, Toothpaste"
- Alberto Culver "Fountain V05"
- Alberto Culver "Hydroplane"
- Alberto Culver "Hydroplane, Not The Same"
- Alberto Culver "Party"
- Alberto Culver: "Sparkler Sales Film"
- Alberto Culver "Toothpaste"
- Alberto Culver Toothpaste: "Beautiful Smile Combo"
- Alberto Culver Toothpaste: "Beautiful Smile Combo"
- Alberto Culver Toothpaste Powder
- Alberto Culver: [Untitled]
- "Ali" RT449 Pos Pix Out
- "Ali" RT449 Pos Pix Out
- American Bar Association: 1. "Search Warrant" (:30), 2. Bail & Legal Council" (:30)
- American Bar Association: 1. "Search Warrant" (:30), 2. "Bail & Legal Counsel" (:30)
- American Bar Association: 1. "Search Warrant" (:30) and 2. "Bail & Legal Counsel" (:30)
- American Bar Association: "Jailed Woman"
- American Bar Association: "Search Warrant" Only
- American Dental Association: "Healthy Smiles" (:60)
- American Dental Association: "Healthy Teeth"
- American Dental Association: "Pied Piper" :30
- American Dental Association: "Pied Piper" :30
- American Dental Association: "Pied Piper" :60
- American Dental Association: "Pied Piper" :60
- American Dental Association: "Pied Piper" (:60)
- American Dental Association: "Smile America"
- American Dental Association: "Smile America"
- American Dental Association: "Smile America" (:60)
- American Dental Association: "Smile America" (Sample Reel)
- American Medical Association: "Adult Alcohol Abuse"
- An American Time Capsule
- Anesthesia: Inhaled or Injected? Part 1
- Anesthesia: The State of the Art
- Anesthesia: The State of the Art
- Animation Sample Reel
- Any Old Man
- Apollo 12
- Apollo 12
- Apollo 12 NG Neg
- B/W
- B/W Honda Soak It To Me
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Blue Monaco"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Blue Monaco"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Brown Monaco"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Charger Coupe"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Dart Swinger"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Dart Swinger"
- BBD&O-Chrysler Corp.: "Dart Swinger"
- Beecham Laboratories: "Antibiotics Under The Microscope" (Eight Minute Version)
- Beecham Laboratories: British "Ticar" Film
- Beecham Laboratories: "The Inoculum Effect on Antibacterial Activity (The I Effect)"
- The Beginning
- The Beginning
- Bell and Howell: "First Steps"
- Ben's Dream
- Big Brother
- Big Brother (:60)
- Big Brother: Sample Reel
- Big Brother: Sample Reel
- Big Easy
- The Birthday Movie
- The Birthday Movie (12:00)
- BK
- Bob Gruese: Sears
- The Bounce Tests
- The Bounce Tests (Basic Version)
- The Bounce Tests (Basic Version) [Oct. Revision]
- Breon Laboratories: "Bronkosol Unit Dose-1 2 3"
- Breon One in Three
- Breon One in Three (Short Version)
- Breon Unit Does
- British Ticar (Japanese)
- Bronkosol Unit Dose
- Bubble-Up
- "Bubble Up": Can (:10)
- Bubble Up: "Can" :30
- "Bubble Up": Can (:30)
- Bubble Up: "Jamaican Waiter"
- Bubble-Up: "Jamaican Waiter"
- Bubble-Up: "Jamaican Waiter" (:60)
- Bubble Up: "Reasons" (:30)
- A-C Protein Hair
- A/C Space Platform
- California Drive
- Camay :60
-
Camay Commercials:
"Camay Was Here"
"Creamy Look"
"Water Story"
"Sounds of Washing"
"Gloria Frisbee" - Camay: "Small Stone"
- Canon: "Festival"
- Canon: "Sample Reel"
- Canon: [Untitled]
- The Carborundum Museum of Ceramics
- Carborundum Museum of Ceramics
- The Carborundum Museum of Ceramics
- Carpuject Design (Second Answer Print)
- Caterpillars + Butterflies WP
- CBS Gag Reel
- Children in Trouble
- Chuck Wood
- Chuck Wood Pix
- Chuck Wood Track
- Chuck Woods 7197
- "Chuck Woods" NEG 7-28-83
- "Chuck Woods" OPT PIX NEG 8-19-83
- "Chuck Woods" OPTPIX 7-21-83
- "Chuck Woods" PRT 7-21-83
- "Chuck Woods" PRT 7-28-83
- "Chuck Woods" PRT 8-19-83
- "Chuck Woods" Tails 7197 AX
- CMC :50
- CMC Spot
- Coca-Cola Commercials
- Combat in the Classroom
- Comic Strip
- Commercial Anthology / Ivory / C.Oil / Prell / Brown Shoe / Oxydol / NYPD / Joy Kodak
- Commercial Director's Sample Reel
- Commercials Sample Reel
- Convenience and Flavor
- Dad's: "Kio"
- Dad's: "Kio" (:30)
- Dad's: "Pour" (:10)
- Dad's R.B.
- Dad's Root Beer: "Real Lovers" :30
- Dad's: "Woman"
- Dailies From Dirk's Office
- Dao's: "Kto"
- David Angsten Animation
- Dedication to Excellence
- "The Derby"
- Dirk's Desk Ftg.
- Dirk's Office Before Clean Up - Original Neg
- Dirk Wales Commercials Reel #1
- Dirk Wales Commercials Reel #2
- Dirk Wales Producer Sample Reel McCann-Erickson 1971-72
- Dolls
- Dolls :60 (Heads/Tails)
- Dolls / M Glass
- Double Print (RT751 Pos Outs)
- Downtown
- Dreyfus-Ashby: "Corks"
- Duramorph / Elkins-Sinn
- Eclipse
- Eclipse
- Eclipse Expedition Flares Work Prt
- Ellis, Singer & Webb: "Ecologizer"
- Erik Cigar: "Viking Ship" (:50)
- Expectant Mother (:30)
- A Fair Appraisal: "Mark Twain at the 1893 Fair"
- A Fair Appraisal / Mark Twain Trademark Revision
- Festival/Dirk
- Finger Cheese
- First East-West Shrine Game
- First Steps B/H
- Fish
- Florida Keys Community College: "Follow the Sun"
- Floyd Kalber/NBC Spot
- Food and Wine from France: "Carillon Verson" (:30)
- Food and Wine From France: "French Lesson-Carillon Version"
- French Wines from France: "Barriere"
- French Wines from France: "Canteval (Nicolas)"
- French Wines from France: "Cellier des Dauphins, Ltd. (Musette)"
- French Wines from France: "Cellier des Dauphins (Montragon)"
- French Wines from France: "Corks Carillion (Abbaye Lescour Reserve)"
- French Wines from France: "Cotes du Rhone"
- French Wines from France: "Dreyfus-Ashby (La Cour Pavillion)"
- French Wines from France: "Loire Valley"
- French Wines from France: "Musette"
- Funnier Side of Eastern Canada 16mm Show and Promo
- Grease Monkey
- Gumbasia
- Head Ends of Sears Vers.
-
Helen Nelson Sample Reel:
"Spitfire"
"Aviance"
"Windsong"
"Windsong" - Heublein Liquor: "Knickers"
- Historical Anthology Reel
- Honda test / Soak it to me / Toothpaste
- HQ 197 Apollo 12 Pinpoint
- Icarus
- Icarus
- Illinois Trauma System: "Six--East"
- Irwin Agency: French Wines from France: "Burgundy" (:30)
- Irwin's: "Corks" (Compilation of :30 commercial spots)
- It's What You Can't See That Hurts
- It's What You Can't See That Hurts
- Ivory is 100 (Sepia Portions)
- Jamaican Waiter: "Bubble Up" (:60-:30-:10)
- Jet-X Corp.: [Untitled]
- The Jim Bridger Story (Public Relations Release)
- Johnson & Johnson: "Pancrease"
- Johnsons Wax To Be Alive...
- Jump Rope (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs)
- Kennedy 50¢
- Kennedy 50¢
- Kennedy 50¢
- KINKY UCLA Student Film
- Lady Tree
- Lady Tree
- Leo Burnett: B/W (:60)
- Leo Burnett: Camay C: "Small Store" (:60)
- Leo Burnett: P&G Camay: "Reverse Aging"
- Leo Burnett: Philip Morris Clark Gum: "Teaberry"
- Life is Full of Dreams, Frustration and Fun
- "Liver Transplant" (:30)
- Loops Color
- Marvin Glass Game Project
- A Matter of Pride
- Maytag (?)
- McCANN–E 1972
- Medical Spot: "Liver Transplant"
- Meeting Nature's Challenge
- Most Beautiful Hair
- Muhammed Ali RT930: N.D.
- Muhammed Ali RT930: [untitled]
- Music "A Sketch of Eden"
- N.W. Ayer: Alberto Culver: Born Clean: "Echo" (:30)
- N.W. Ayer: Alberto Culver: Born Clean: "Echo" (:30)
- N.W. Ayer/Alberto Culver: Excitement Toothpaste "Beautiful Smile III"
- N. W. Ayer and Son
- National Dairy Council: 1p PRT 6-26-81
- National Dairy Council: #4642 Tails B-Roll IP
- National Dairy Council: A.D.A A.P.O 6.30.81
- National Dairy Council: Animated Spots 1978-79-80
- National Dairy Council: BX Heads L1642
- National Dairy Council: "Expectant Mother/"Nursing Mother"/"Future Mother"
- National Dairy Council: "Family Breakfast" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Family Breakfast" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Family Breakfast" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Future Mother"
- National Dairy Council: "Future Mother" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: Heads 4642 A-Roll VE 4709
- National Dairy Council: IE4602 VE4709 AX Heads
- National Dairy Council: IP Heads 4642
- National Dairy Council: "Nursing Mother"
- National Dairy Council: "Nursing Mother" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Nursing Mother" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: Original Hi-con Heads
- National Dairy Council: Tail OPT PIX NEG
- National Dairy Council: Tail Opt Pix Neg
- National Dairy Council: Tails 4642 CX
- National Dairy Council: "Tennis Salad Bar" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Tennis Salad Bar" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: {untitled}
- National Dairy Council: {untitled}
- National Dairy Council: {untitled}
- National Dairy Council: "Working Woman"
- National Dairy Council: "Working Woman" (:30)
- National Dairy Council: "Working Woman" :30 (Mid East Version)
- NBC: "Kalber"
- NDC
- NDC "First Day": Cinema Graphics ephemera
- NDC "First Day": "CR/90" Tails AX
- NDC "First Day": Heads ID #1 "CR/90" VE#4894A
- NDC "First Day" Opt. Neg. Cinex + Test 6-16-82 CA/90
- NDC: "Kids Dinner Salad Bar"
- NDC Spots
- NDC - Workprint 1197: Timed WP
- NDC Workprint - 131689 Jak
- NER Sales Film
- NER Sales Film/Tiger Leasing Group
- New England from the "See America" series
- New Friends
- New Ingredient
- Normal (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs)
- OD Opening (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs)
- Ohio Medical Anaesthetics "Toward A Better Anaesthesia" English Version
- Ohio Medical Products: "Convention Film"
- Ohio Medical Products: Dialogues II Gag Film
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- Oxydol "Man in White"
- P8
- Peter Pan "Granny"
- Peter Pan "Kitchen"
- Peter Pan "Little Boy"
- Peter Pan "Picnic"
- The Pharmacology of Inhaled Anesthetics
- Pittway/Grey-North: "First Alert Alarm System"
- The Power of Listening
- Presbyterian University Hospital: "Liver Transplant" PSA
- Primitive Pottery
- Primitive Pottery
- Primitive Pottery
- Primitive Pottery
- Procter & Gamble Behind Our Promise
- Procter & Gamble Spots 1962 - 1969
- A Question of Pain
- Rainbow
- Rainbow Animation Heads
- Rapid Eye Movements
- Re-Railer
- Re-Railer (Print #1)
- Reel Thing 44447
- Reel Thing 44447
- The Reel Thing: Sears: "Dialogues" (Track Heads)
- A Report on Forane - Work Print
- The Right Choice
- The Room in the Tower
- RT 449 "Ali": Wild EFX Mohamid
- RT930: "Muhammad Ali"
- Rush-Hampton House (Long Version)
- S. S. White / D. Wales
- Salem: "Doors" (:60)
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Sample Reel #6:
"Canon Camera/Festival"
"French Wines/French Lesson"
"Bubble Up/Jamaican Waiter"
"NDC/Nursing Mother"
- Sample Reel: Sears, Canon, Big Brother
- San Francisco: The Golden Gate
- Sears + Cannon
- Sears "Car Pool"
- Sears "Comfort Shirt S/S"
- Sears "Comfort Shirt S/S"
- Sears "Day Game"
- Sears: "Day Game"
- Sears "Give'n Take Slacks"
- Sears Men Store: Knit Suit: "Suit Up" (:30)
- Sears: "Muhammad Ali" (Optical Tracks)
- Sears: "Muhammad Ali" (Orig. EKTA for Opticals)
- Sears: "Muhammad Ali" (Orig. EKTA for Opticals) Gordon Heaton - W.P.PIX
- Sears: "Muhammad Ali" (Orig. EKTA for Opticals) (Tom Gallahue - B PIX - HEADS)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (RT751 Pos Outs)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (RT751 Pos Outs)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (RT751 Pos Outs)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (RT751 Pos Outs: Tripple Print)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (Sync Track Reel #1)
- Sears: “Muhammad Ali” (Track SE 2-3)
- Sears: "Muhammed Ali" (Aci Dailies Tails)
- Sears: “Muhammed Ali”: Mohamid Ali Voice Over Track
- Sears: "Muhammed Ali" (RT 751 Interlock)
- Sears: "Muhammed Ali" (RT449 35/32 OPT I/N)
- Sears: “Muhammed Ali” (RT750 Interlock)
- Sears "Option Play"
- Sears: "Option Play"
- Sears/Paints: "Ben Faces August" (:30)
- Sears Pool #2
- Sears Reel
- Sears Sample Reel
- Sears Sample Reel
- Sears "Traveller Knit Suit"
- Sears "Traveller Knit Suit"
- Shima Passberger: "Endangered Species"
- Shirt
- Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children
- A Slice of the Good Life D
- A Slice of the Good Life E
- A Slice of the Good Life F
- Slock
- Snows of Aorangi
- Solutions to Vandalism
- "Son of Dialogues"
- Sound Machine / Downtown
- Sports Action Profile - Al McGuire
- SR1 Transformations (Audio)
- SR2 Transformations (Audio)
- SR3 Transformations (Audio)
- Staffordshire Deja Vu
- State of Illinois: Department of Children and Family Services: Hotline! (Mandated Version)
- State of Illinois: Dept. of Children and Family Services: "Hotline!" (General Version)
- Steve Martin's First Television Special / Air Canada / The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada
- Suit
- Suit
- Sydney Opera House
- The Sydney Opera House
- T.M. Resce & Associates: "Open Laparoscopy"
- The Testing Tree
- Thomas Playford: "SF/Carborundum Film" (275,000/5 Stacks)
- Ticar
- Ticar
- Ticar (A.P. from Interneg)
- Ticar Anim. Outs
- Ticar w/Pict.
- [Transformation] 4A
- Transformation Audience
- [Transformation] "Earth" Slide
- Transformation Mix Copy
- [Transformation] Pix for last statement
- Transformations Reel #1 (Audio)
- Transformations Reel #2 (Audio)
- Transformations Reel #3 (Audio)
- Transformations Reel #4 (Audio)
- Transformation Roll #3A
- Transformation Roll 1A2 Intro
- Transformations Roll #A4
- Transformation The Planets - Space Shots
- Transformation Titles
- Transformation Trim #1
- [Transformation Trims]
- Twice a Hero
- Twice A Hero: The Story of Casimir Pulaski
- Two Coffee-Break Films
- Ultra Bright: "The Greatest"
- Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
- Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
- Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
- Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
- Underwriters Lab (:60)
- Underwriters Lab PSA
- Underwriters Lab Spot
- Underwriters Lab: "Vicious Vapors"
- Underwriters Lab: "Vicious Vapors" (:30)
- Underwriters Laboratories: "Vicious Vapors"
- Underwriter's Lab: "Vicious Vapors" (:30)
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- [Untitled 1209 Outs] (Audio)
- [untitled] (Muhammad Ali RT71 Pos Outs)
- [untitled] (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs)
- [untitled] (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs)
- [untitled] (Muhammad Ali RT751 Pos Outs loose trimmings)
- [Untitled Transformation Trim]
- [Untitled Transformation Trim]
- [Untitled Transformation Trim]
- The Use of Ethrane (Enflurane)
- V05 Rainstorm/Snowmobile
- Vexing Valves
- Vexing Valves
- Visions of Time: Part I and Part II
- Westinghouse White Sale
- White Lake Test
- Winthrop Laboratories: "The Carpuject Concept"
- Your Feet's Too Big
- Zimmer Bone Cement
- Zimmer Educational Film: "Internal Fixation Devices" (D. Paul. R. Meyer Jr, MD)
Dirk Wales was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended Stanford University and later received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA. Wales studied playwriting and stage direction in the University’s Theater Department, where he was a classmate with both James Dean and Carol Burnett. While a student at UCLA, four of his plays were produced and he was awarded the “Best Director’s Award.” After graduating from UCLA, Wales became a combat infantry officer and was stationed in Munich, Germany. Following his service in Germany, Wales returned to Los Angeles where he worked as the Director and Studio Production Manager at KCOP Television (channel 13) in Los Angeles.
In 1969, Wales moved to Chicago, IL to work as a television commercial producer for the McCann-Erickson advertisting agency. Wales founded Rainbow Productions, a non-theatrical film production company, in Chicago in 1972. Rainbow Productions created educational, documentary, and sponsored films on subjects ranging from vandalism to addiction prevention and diabetes. Specializing in medical education, Rainbow made more than 80 films on the subject of anesthesia. Clients included Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Squibb Pharma, and Baxter Laboratories, among others. Filmmakers including Jim Morrissette, Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal, who would later go on to work with Kartemquin Films, worked on projects with Rainbow Productions over the years.