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Current "career" section: In 1957, Bert Van Bork met with Warren Everote who worked multiple positions during his time at Encyclopedia Britannia Films from a filmmaker to executive producer to even president. In this meeting, Van Bork showed him his film The Seventeen Year Locust which landed him a job to produce art and science films for Encyclopedia Britannica and the film was later renamed Insect Life Cycle: the Periodical Cicada for distribution purposes

Want to include - interest in volcano films, and the "spectacular footage" he got, possibly quote Geoff Alexander when he gets lyrical. - Diversify the discussion around films that he made with them

Current intro: Bert Van Bork (1928 – October 29, 2014) was a German-born producer, director, cinematographer, still photographer, painter, and printer. He studied fine arts in Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden, and later moved to Chicago where he shot and directed educational films for companies like [1] Encyclopædia Britannica Films and Physical Science Study Committee.

His work was heavily influenced by German expressionism[2] and some of his most critically acclaimed films include his Academy Award nominated short documentary Eyewitness (1999 film) and The Seventeen Year Locust, which was later renamed Insect Life Cycle: The Periodical Cicada.[3]

Want to include - a better explanation of who he was and the generalized significance of his work, a lot of this repeats stuff specified later...