Ed Hartman's Reel

Fellow filmmakers, composers, producers, actors, crew, writers, creators and storytellers: This is a project I have been working on for three years. You simply have to see this amazing film by a 1930s 20-year-old Seattle filmmaker! It is truly inspirational to a filmmaker. Biopic coming. Who’s interested? I appreciate you help in sharing it far and wide. Thanks! 84 years from Creation to Broadcast! “As the Earth Turns” on Turner Classic Movies, Halloween October 31, 2021 at 9pm Pacific...

"It Gets in Your Blood" (Trailer) will be released on DVD/BlueRay with "As the Earth Turns". Updates:https://www.astheearthturns.com/All m...

Are YOU interested in joining the team? (Pitch for building a team for "The Filmmaker", a biopic of Richard H. Lyford. "Andy Hardy meets Orson Welles")

In 1937, in Seattle, a twenty-year old budding filmmaker using his own equipment, had already created 58 plays and 9 never released, award-winning films. This director would go on to work for Disney, and eventually create an Academy Award winning documentary in 1950. Richard H. Lyford’s films have developed a following among film-historians around the world. His early “amateur” films are some of the first “indie” films ever created outside of Hollywood. Lyford experimented with...

Fun vintage silent movie with original "Newsreel" style music by Ed Hartman. Music is available for licensing at edhartmanmusic.com

Classical, Jazz, Latin, World, Electronic medley.