Welcome to Passage To Productions
This is the primary page for our company and its various products. From here you can learn about our company and visit our various websites.
We are a small, family run video company, based in Florida. We primarily produce travel documentaries, but we also produce educational documentaries as well. Our video and still photography products are also used by major production companies the world over. When we are not doing a shoot in some far-off land, we may do special event videos, such as weddings, anniversaries and corporate presentations.
Our video products are seen on international channels, such as "The History Channel" and sold the world over through most of the major online retailers such as Amazon. Our documentaries are unlike any other produced. Instead of focusing on things like hotels, restaurants and bars, we go into the histories and contents of the sites themselves. With our travel documentaries we actually create easy to follow "tours", each designed to take the average person about four to six hours to complete. Each documentary has its own associated website, which provides the viewer with loads of additional information.
Our video and still clip library contains over 22,000 images. We have been able to shoot some of the most rare footage ever taken, including an hour-long timelapse of the spring equinox at Chichen Itza, with all seven diamonds present and no cloud cover. |
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We have finished shooting all segments of Passage to Paris, now we start the editing process.
Lucaya and Logan have spent two years researching and developing this wonderful project. As with all of our travel videos, we will take you on tours around the City of Lights, seeing both the things everyone wants to see as well as the more obscure and less visited. Passage to Paris is shot in HD and will provide you with stunning video.
One of the things that makes us very excited about this video is that we turned the complete production over to our Host and Narrator - Lucaya Luckey-Bethany and her brother, our primary videographer and editor, Logan Luckey-Bethany. With their substantial backgrounds, they put together a series of tours that reflect their styles. They are a lot of fun, have captures some amazing shots and take you to places that few would know about in the City of Lights.
Visit the Passage To Paris website to learn more. |
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Passage to the Mayans was shot in March 2011. This series, all shot in HD, will take you to some of the great Mayan cities and sites throughout the Yucatan. From the world famous Chichen Itza to Coba to Ek Balem and many more, you will take a journey back a thousand or more years to see the magnificence of the structures and carvings, built primarily using only stone age tools, but with an engineering genius that rivaled that of Rome.
We shot in 14 locations throughout the Yucatan, with the vast majority being Mayan cities that held a major significance in the Mayan culture, but are seldom visited, due primarily to their remote locations.
We anticipate release of this DVD series in the Spring 2013 |
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We make travel videos in an effort to help the traveling public . In the past, before we would go somewhere, we would purchase several videos or watch television shows relating to the places we wanted to visit. In almost every instance, either the video quality was very poor or the focus was on food, hotels and bars. We figured we could find our own restaurants, places to stay and pubs. What we wanted was information on the actual sites and locations we wished to visit. We wanted to learn the best way to get around, how to save money and to make the most of our travel time.
To this end, we began the Passage To series. Each video is designed to be like a private tour. We spend months researching, we usually visit the location first for several weeks to learn our way around. We then return, sometimes multiple times, to do the actual shoots. In other words, we do the groundwork so you do not have to.
In addition, each of our videos has an associated website. On each of these sites we provide a substantial amount of information on the city or area. We often provide free guidebooks, MP3 audio guides and much more. When you purchase one of our DVD sets you can be certain that you are getting a high quality product that has been fact checked and has been followed numerous times by ourselves and others. |
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This new documentary will begin filming in late summer 2012 and is to be an ongoing project. We will be initially visiting about 30 States, visiting National Parks, Forests, Monuments, State Parks, wilderness and towns across the U.S.
Visit our Pictures From America website to see what is happening. (presently the website is in its initial construction stages, so nothing is really there yet) |
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Art, Architecture and History of the Churches of Rome |
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The Art, Architecture and History of the Churches of Rome has been five years in development. Based primarily on the monumental book "The Pilgrim's Guide to Rome's Principal Churches", written by Father Joseph Tylenda and published by Angelus Press, this 20+ episode broadcast mini-series takes you into 40 churches and basilicas in Rome. It is not a religious series, but instead shows how the influences of the Vatican and these churches have changed western culture through the genius and beauty created by some of the world's greatest artists, sculptors, architects.
This series is now in the editing stage, all footage has now been shot over the course of six years. We anticipate release by the spring of 2013. It will be broadcast globally. |
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