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'''Centron Corporation''' was a leading [[Industrial video|industrial]] and [[educational film]] production company, specializing in classroom and corporate [[16mm film]]s and [[VHS]] videocassettes.<ref name="KSHS">{{cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/centron-films-camera/10288|title=Centron Films Camera|publisher=[[Kansas Historical Society]]|date=June 2008|author=Kansas Historical Society|accessdate=July 6, 2019}}</ref> A slightly smaller company than its contemporaries such as [[Encyclopædia Britannica Films]], [[Coronet Films]] and [[Learning Corporation of America]], it was very successful from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, gaining added fame with the [[Academy Award]]-nominated ''[[Leo Beuerman]]'' in 1969.<ref name="Oscars1969">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970 |title=The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=January 11, 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

==Overview==

Founded in 1947 in [[Lawrence, Kansas]] by boyhood friends [[Arthur Wolfe|Arthur H. Wolf]], a veteran of Calvin Films, another Kansas film company, Calvin Films, and Russell A. Mosser, of [[Boeing Wichita|Boeing-Wichita]]. The name was chosen to incorporate the key words "central", given that the company was located in the center of the United States, and "electronic" in honor of the "electronic age of the future".

'''Centron''' successfully competed with large companies on both coasts, and was widely known for its high quality films, coming in on time and under budget. The company kept afloat for decades making many technical instructions, cooking and sewing demonstrations, teacher aides and safety prevention reels. It added some [[social guidance film]]s in the 1950s to compete with [[Coronet Films]], along with [[zoological]] and [[Geography|geographic]] topics that held stronger interest among school students.

[[Herk Harvey|Harold "Herk" Harvey]] was a principal director at '''Centron'''. His 1962 feature ''[[Carnival of Souls]]'' was produced with several people associated with '''Centron'''. [[John Clifford]], a Centron [[screenwriter]], wrote the script for ''[[Carnival of Souls]]''.