Ken Marthey
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Kenneth C. Marthey joined in 1961 the staff of On Film, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey, and Nev York City, as a Producer-Director. In the previous 15 years as a writer, producer, and director he has done work on industrial motion pictures and TV commercials in staff capacities and as a free-lancer.
Marthey has been a TV producer and group head at both McCann-Erickson and Benton and Bowles advertising agencies. At Benton & Bowles Inc. he was senior TV producer serving the Procter & Gamble account. From 1953 to 1955 he was line producer at Transfilm, Inc. He left McCann-Erickson. Inc. TV-Radio Group executive to become vice-president in charge of TV commercial spot production for United States Productions, Inc., New York.
He received the first Robert Flaherty Foundation Award for cinematography as the cameraman for And Now - Miguel, an award-winning documentary (which was in the 1953 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Compettition), produced for the U.S. State Department. During World War II, he was in charge of photography in the Filmstrip Photo Division of the U. S. Army Signal Corps, and later served in the European Theater of Operations as first cameraman for Hollywood director George Stevens.
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Marthey has been a TV producer and group head at both McCann-Erickson and Benton and Bowles advertising agencies. At Benton & Bowles Inc. he was senior TV producer serving the Procter & Gamble account. From 1953 to 1955 he was line producer at Transfilm, Inc. He left McCann-Erickson. Inc. TV-Radio Group executive to become vice-president in charge of TV commercial spot production for United States Productions, Inc., New York.
He received the first Robert Flaherty Foundation Award for cinematography as the cameraman for And Now - Miguel, an award-winning documentary (which was in the 1953 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Compettition), produced for the U.S. State Department. During World War II, he was in charge of photography in the Filmstrip Photo Division of the U. S. Army Signal Corps, and later served in the European Theater of Operations as first cameraman for Hollywood director George Stevens.
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