| 1947 |
Nov. 29 - born Michael John Harker in Culver
City, CA. |
| 1965 |
Graduated South Torrance High School |
| 1965-67 |
Orange Coast College, team captain of 8-man
Crew National Champions, job as photo lab assistant |
| 1967-69 |
UCLA induding 4 semesters of cinematography,
off campus job as photographer's assistant, purchased first 16mm film camera and made
first film of UCLA Crew Team |
| 1969-71 |
Drafted in US Army Recreation Center,
Garmisch, Germany. worked as water & snow ski instructor and in information section as
16mm film and 35mm photographer |
| 1971-73 |
Club Med snow & water ski instructor in
Greece, Austria, and Switzerland. Filmed commercial for Club Med |
| 1973 |
Made first film for ZDF German Television, 30
min. on my world record hang glider flight from the Zugspitze |
| 1974 |
Made 60 min. documentary of hang glider
flight from Japan 5 Mt. Fuji for ZDF and NBC |
| 1975 |
Produced, directed, filmed and edited prize
winning 60 min. documentary ,,Icarus", sold to 16 TV countries |
| 1977-81 |
Hang gliding accident in Greneda. 3 years in
hospitals |
| 1981-83 |
Sports photographer for German magazine
,,Stern" then ,,Bunte" at Lake Placid Olympic Games. Filmed many 3 min. sport
shorts edited to Pop music for ZDF (music clips) |
| 1983 |
Purchased the first Betacam camcorder and
component edit suite in Germany. Filmed andedited sportsevents |
| 1984-91 |
Built and operated the first mobil Betacam OB
van with component AlB edit & 3 live camera operations for sport events. Cameraman and
editor or live mixer |
| 1991 |
Built mobil flight-case production suite and
produced TV series "Just for Fun" for ZDF (8 x 30 min) |
| 1992 |
Returned home to Los Angeles to work for
German TV in PAL for L.A., Operated my own PAL Betacam edit suite |
| 1992-98 |
Produce, direct, film and edit TV series for
ZDF once a year, 32 episodes of 30 min. each (Joy-robic, Fit-forever, Body-feeling).
Photograph a book each time |
| 1994 |
continuing extension courses at UCLA for
non-linear edit and AFI computer edit and graphics courses (AVID, etc.) |