CARNIVAL OF SOULS was trimmed slightly before its 1962 release. In 1989, director Herk Harvey edited that material back in for home video, but as the best source for it was one-inch videotape, it was not included in the restored 2K master of the film. Here is one of the longest of the cut scenes,...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS was trimmed slightly before its 1962 release. In 1989, director Herk Harvey edited that material back in for home video, but as the best source for it was one-inch videotape, it was not included in the restored 2K master of the film. Here is one of the longest of the cut scenes,...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS was trimmed slightly before its 1962 release. In 1989, director Herk Harvey edited that material back in for home video, but as the best source for it was one-inch videotape, it was not included in the restored 2K master of the film. Here is one of the longest of the cut scenes,...

The following outtakes from CARNIVAL OF SOULS are presented with composer Gene Moore’s original organ score.

This selected-scene audio commentary features a 1989 interview with director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford.

In this 2016 piece, writer and comedian Dana Gould discusses CARNIVAL OF SOULS.

Made in celebration of the 1989 theatrical rerelease of CARNIVAL OF SOULS, the following documentary was produced by Bill Shaffer of KTWU Channel 11 in Topeka, Kansas. A brief tour of the modern-day locations follows.

This video essay on CARNIVAL OF SOULS by critic and filmmaker David Cairns was produced in 2016.

Veteran broadcaster Ed Yeates made a documentary about the Saltair resort for Salt Lake City’s KCPX-TV in 1966, adapting it from a radio version he’d made while a college student. The excerpts shown here feature the dilapidated resort around the time CARNIVAL OF SOULS was shot there. Note that th...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has b...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has b...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has b...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has b...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron. Presented here is a commercial the pai...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford were employed for over thirty years by the Lawrence, Kansas–based industrial film giant the Centron Corporation. Between them, Harvey and Clifford made over four hundred films for Centron, from which the following segment has b...

This essay on the history of the Centron Corporation appears in author Ken Smith’s Book “Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945–1970.” It is read here by writer and comedian Dana Gould.