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Chris at sunset in West Texas
picture of Troubador on his First Birthday
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Picture of Martin in museum December 2004
Martin, Mary,Jim and Chris working on IBAT History video
Chris & Dancer riding in River Crossing

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These pages were initially created to transfer photos from traditional scrapbooks to the internet in order to both preserve and make the pictures and history available to family and friends. It has become more extensive than I intended. However, I see it as a way to save the details before they slip away.

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On 01/01/89 Chris was now with Phantom Productions, Inc. full time

01/01/89 - 7:30 pm meet with Folk singer Linden Sherwin

 

picture of the signing of management contract between Phantom Productions and the metal band Skull Duggery

February 11, 1989 Chris & Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skull Duggery - MORE INFO & VIDEO

Chris, Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skullduggery

Chris, Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skullduggery - MORE INFO & VIDEO

Chris and Martin with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio

Skullduggery Austin Recording Studio MORE INFO & VIDEO

 

Chris with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio

09/19/89 Chris and Martin at Austin Recording Studio with thei rmetal band Skull Duggery

Chris with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio

Chris with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio

Chris with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio

 

Skullduggery Austin Recording Studio

Chris with John Viehweg engineering Skull Duggery for Phantom Productions at Austin Recording Studio
     
Chris, Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skullduggery
   

MartinTheophilusDocACC Commercial Music Tech Program creationAfter months of meetings and with the help of  ACC Board member Gilbert Martinez we got traction. In July 1989 ACC released the A.A.S. Commercial  Management Program Application for Approval.

By that point the ad-hoc group had grown and included the folks on this page. The Austin Music Commission passed a resolution supporting the ACC program's creation (draft).

It took several years and lots of help from others. ACC said if ten students showed up for the first class, they would continue the program. Thirty-eight registered and additional classes had to be created. It became a reality in the Summer of 1988 and regular classes began in 1989.

 Here's some additional ACC Commercial Music management evolution pages.

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis letter to Martin reference the ACC Commercial Music Program and managing Marcia Ball's lead guitarist James Hinkle    89SummerACC Commercial Music Industry Program.jpg       Martin Theophilus Doc re ACC Commercial Music Management Tech Program creation  Martin Theophilus Doc re ACC Commercial Music Management Tech Program creation  Martin Theophilus Doc re ACC Commercial Music Management Tech Program creation Dec 14, 1990 ACC Martin Theophilus, Chairman Commercial Music Management Tech Advisory Group meeting 1991 ACC Commercial Music Management Tech Advisory Group Feb 7 91 ACC Martin Theophilus, Chairman Commercial Music Management Tech Advisory Group meeting  Feb 19 91 ACC Martin Theophilus, Chairman Commercial Music Management Tech Advisory Group meeting        Dec 14, 1990 ACC Martin Theophilus, Chairman Commercial Music Management Tech Advisory Group meeting

08/05/89  Chris at sound check in San Antonio with Phantom's Skull Duggery - view video clips

 

Chris, Martin John Cambridge, wife Joan and Joan's mother

Chris, Martin & Phantom UK's John Cambridge, wife Joan and Joan's mother • More John Cambridge & Mark Luke Daniels UK tracks

Chris, Martin with Canadian record execs, Andy Murphy, David & Sheila case (Phantom UK Directors)

March 16, 1989 Chris, Martin with Canadian record execs, Andy Murphy, David & Sheila case (Phantom UK Directors) and Mark Luke with friend Benny.

031689 David Case & Sheila SXSW

picture of cover of Billboard Spotlight on Austin music issueAustin ads from the Billboard issue spotlighting Austin music in 1989

Billboard's 1989 profile of Austin

Phantom Productions' legal video services in 1990

 

Phantom Trademark approved January 27,1989

Phantom Productions, Inc. video editing

On 05/06/89 Phantom produced a video for Rusty Weir's birthday at the Backyard booked by Sandy Edwards

   
051389 C&M to Seattle & Portland    
  06/21/89 Dallas for DHS, Chris & Carol, Blackeyed Pea

06/27/89 Martin Reg 03/12 El Paso DHS Ruidosa retreat & Chris flew into El Paso to join

 

 

Martin & Chris with Peggy & family

 
     

051389 C&M to Seattle & Portland

06/21/89 Dallas for DHS, Chris & Carol, Blackeyed Pea

080489 Tracie AquaFest

     
     
     

July 22, 1989 Chris and Martin on Town Lake at K98 River Raft Race

1989 Aqua Fest Jet Ski Races

 

09/20/89 MLD back to LA & ACC 6 pm Ballooning class

 

 
   
 

On August 31,1989 Chis' Mum passed away

Isabella Pretsell Maule Miller

Born 28 Apr 1902 Summerford, Cameron, Falkirk, Scotland

Died 31 August 1989 Haverhill Suffolk, UK

 

Mum, Anthony & Ken

Mum with siblings

 

 

Dinner last night before heading home 1985.  Martin's Mom, Peter, Sheila, Lynn, Mum, Chris & Martin

Chris & Mum visiting Walter who used to work at the family's Cuckoo Tye Farm

Mum, Holly & Roe

Chris, Mum, Lynn and Sheila

Peter, Sheila, Mum & Chris

 

     

You never know! In 1989 I wanted to give my wife Chris, a hot air balloon ride. Something she'd expressed interest in after we were married. Luckily I found it was too expensive. Why luckily? Instead I registered her in an Austin Community College class about crewing for hot air balloons. Had I just bought her a single flight, that would have probably been the end of it.

Surreptitiously, the ACC class on September 1, 1989, was taught by Dan Sherrill (left)l who owned Railroad BarBQ. Dan had catered our wedding. He gave me permission to videotape his presentation as a gift to Chris and the class. After the class, Dan asked if we would work with him to develop a training tape for hot air balloon events enabling them to quickly train new beginner crew volunteers. The video "From the Ground Up" was produced and continues to be used by ballooning events around the world.

Dan then hired Chris and I to document other ballooning events which he coordinated. Chris and I would trade off flying (videotaping from the air), or riding with crew on the ground to reflect the full process.

The events we documented included: Harris Branch in Austin; and events in Mesquite, Giddings, Poteet, Ft. WorthAlpine and other Texas locations. Two Maryland Preakness ballooning events in 1991 and 1992. A magical 10 day ballooning event in Guanajuato, Mexico. As the result of those productions, we were hired by a third party to document the Kodak Joint Services Andrews Air Force Base Air Show and hot air balloon races.

When we visited Chris' family back in England, we used the occasion to document the Cameroon and Thunder & Colt hot air balloon factories.

All these video are available free on YouTube.

Chris and I estimate that we each received about 40 hot air balloon flights and were paid to do so. This is a video of our very first flight on February 11, 1990 over Austin. There have been a lot of changes in Austin and also restrictions on where hot air balloons fly. We were very fortunate to fly when we did. We met an incredible number of wonderful folks, especially the ones in the Central Texas Hot Air Ballooning Association!

Serendipity!

 

 

 

 

Bob Hays (left, former Director of Staff Dev for DHS), Martin & Chris (right)

10/20/89 Bob Hays moved out of his office

Martin exited the Texas Department of Human Resources in May, 1990 after 22 years with the State of Texas (note smile on Martin's face).  Bob Hays (left, former Director of Staff Dev for DHS), Martin & Chris (right)

 
   
     
     
092489 video interview with John Cambridge on back deck, Doobie Bros 092589 Peter Butcher begins work for ACC    
     

092689 Skull D Aus Rec Studio, edit Rotel

 


101989 DHS reorganizing (again)
102089 Bob Hays moved out of his office

 

November 1989 Anne and daughter Karen visiting. Chris and Martin showed them around Austin, met Mark Luke and took them to South Fork Ranch (Karen rt) outside Dallas to see the location for filming the "Dallas" TV show which they loved.

Chris with Anne and Karen at South Fork Ranch

    

Chris and Martin took Anne and Karen to see a band at the La Zona Rosa. Chris saw Billy Gibbons come into the club and asked Karen if she'd like to meet the ZZTop player. Yes! Chris and Karen went over and Billy was great. They came back to their table and Karen said "who's ZZTop?"

While touring Anne and Karen around Texas, Chris and Martin received a call from David Case. David said he'd pay their way to the UK if they'd come assist him demonstrating the Intelligent Light software. It would be on the HP stand at the computer conference being held at Alexandra Pallace in London.

It was a difficult decision as Anne and Karen were making probably their only visit to Texas. Mark Luke agreed to be their guide for their last few days and Chris and Martin headed to the UK. They caught up with Anne and Karen in Sudbury during their trip.

Chris and Martin working with Phantom's UK Director David Case at London Alexandria's Palace for HP Apollo demonstrations  

November 5, 1989 at 2:27 Chris and Martin left for the UK. They worked with David 11/06/89 to 11/09/89. 11/09/89 London - fish & chips

Chris and Martin working with Phantom's UK Director David Case at London Alexandria's Palace for HP Apollo demonstrations - view video clip

more about London's Alexandria's Palace and the BBC

Chris & Martin helped David Case represent Intelligent Light Animation systems on the Apollo computers at the Hewlett Packard display booth at Alexandria Palace, London, UK.  David pursued IL representation after Chris & Martin recommended he look at the Wavefront animation systems.  He subsequently secured the IL account.  View International space station flyer from David's company.

Chris and Martin working with Phantom's UK Director David Case in Bristol, UK - David's Phantom intro

11/16/89 David Case's Birth Day - Shopped for gift

 

UK Phantom Director David Case received an offer to brand this auto with the Phantom logo and name.

UK Phantom Director David Case received an offer to brand this auto with the Phantom logo and name.  Proposal   video

 

11/10/89 Chris and Martin drove to Sudbury and Acton
11/12/89 Lynn & Sheila - Bury St Edmunds

 

 

David had a friend who offered to let Chris ride her horse in Milton Keynes




111789 D Case met with Steve /Sony re computers (DCase UK Atomic Energy) - Worked on Phantom Animation (Intelligent Light)
111889 Listened to John’s recording - Chris rode home with Elaine & Peter - barn - 111989 CM Return from UK - MLD picked us up - Anthony

 
  112389 Thanksgiving in Austin - Peggy, John, Sally, Don, Jim Cheryl, Bud, Elsie 112489 CM took Elsie & Bud to Lake Travis, Mt Bunnell - the to see MLD in Round Rock -  
     
     
     

 

 

 

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1970-73



New generations productions staff in Austin Custom records offices

2011

Chris at sunset in West Texas
picture of Troubador on his First Birthday
picture of the back of the house
picture of Dancer running
Picture of Martin in museum December 2004
Martin, Mary,Jim and Chris working on IBAT History video
Chris & Dancer riding in River Crossing

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