Dr. David Kintsfather Jr., professor, Department of Electronic Media, began teaching television production at
Kutztown long before the proliferation of cable television. Read about him below.
The Department of Television Production was just three years old. Cameras were huge by today’s digital standards, and everything was recorded on tape. Throughout the years the name of the department changed several times – from Telecommunications to Electronic Media.
What never changed was Dr. Kintsfather’s commitment to teaching the principles of solid story telling.
“We try to teach script-to-screen video production along with an appreciation of what makes a video stay with a viewer or even grab at his or her heartstrings,” he said. “I feel videographers are the modern equivalent of the storytellers who have always kept culture alive and dynamic.”
Dr. Kintsfather said the best example of how his craft can help to change the world is the YouTube channel he and a graduate student created for the Center for Environmental Oncology in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
“As a cancer survivor myself, I was happy to promote research into ways to identify and control environmental factors that may prevent cancer,” he said. “The project clearly demonstrated how professionals in various fields can collaborate over long distances in the digital age. “
From broadcasting over the airwaves to digital transmission, Dr. Kintsfather has been teaching at the leading edge of technology for more than three decades, so it comes as some surprise to find that his personal hobby is researching the history of blimps and rigid airships.
“My hope is that some of the modern companies building large blimps for tourism will succeed, and that I will get a chance to experience something of what it was like to travel on a rigid airship in the 1930s.”To view photos from the KU Ladies Tea, April 2011 on Flickr – go to www.flickr.com/photos/kutztownuniversity.
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