Russell/Barton Films

They were pioneers and visionaries of motion pictures and did much for the local film industry in their day. Old school methods that are dying in the digital age. Processing,printing, cel animation,optical effects,splicing and repairing,negative cutting ,title photography, reduction printing,cartridging ,edge number printing,magnetic and optical sound.Don Barton and Gerden Russell were two film pi

oneers in the area,active in the post World War Two era. Mr. Russell had been a projectionist with IATSE union local union card #1 as well as a newsreel cameraman for Pathe and Universal. In 1972 Don Barton produced a low budget science fiction feature called Zaat that can now be seen on Turner Underground.In the 60's Barton and Russell split up, Barton took the production end and Russell took the lab end.Both of them did well in the 70's but when the majority of their clients went to videotape, it pretty much meant the end. Russell closed on January 10, 1980, Barton closed a few years later, though his company today is now Consolidated Media and is run by Mr. Barton's two sons, Mike and John.