Promo spot by Mercurio Film for Sky Choice

filmed in beautiful Milan, Italy

Sky Pesca (3m MPG)

Burt as a Louisiana Black Bear

Series of ads for Bohn Bros auto dealerships

by Rhino Marketing in Houston Texas

The Bohn Zone (2meg wmv format)

Burt's European Adventures continue in

"Trust the Natives" 10m mpg by

Reload Film, Bucharest Romania &
Woodpecker Film, Helsinki, Finland

End Client: Nokian Tyres

No- that's not me at the end- a local actor was used for the reveal scene. Matt remains unseen still! --- Behind the scenes: Photo #1 / Photo #2

"Bear Care"  18meg QuickTime

Burt & our Rental Grizzly as sloppy college bruins by Reel Impact of St. Louis

Lounge Bear Burt hangs out at
Mont Bleu Casino Resort in Lake Tahoe

Spots by...
Sticks & Stones Productions, Los Angeles  

:30 The Bar (7m QuickTime Video)

:30 The Bathroom (7m QuickTime Video)

Comic specs for Bayer Aspirin
from the creative of Galbis Design in NYC

Bayer Kitchen (3 meg QuickTime)

Bayer Office (2 meg QuickTime)

Sunset Cottage Tourist Bears

Pigeon Forge, TN still shoot by & for client:

"Accommodations by Sunset"

Burt goes "Human Wrestling"

"What would you do to get $686?" Bear Wrestling spot by NFL Films. Small QuickTime vid ( .7meg) ---- Big WMV version (1.7meg)

End Client: Palisades Insurance

#1st Place in February 2006

The hunter becomes the hunted! A role reversal for the Sundance Channel by Phasmatrope Studios (Click for 3m QuickTime Video)

Click for:

Ice Fishing (mov)
Art Gallery (mov)
Dancing (mov)
Shopping (mov)
Snowboard (mov)
Snowmobile (mov)
Chow Time (avi)

Following are stills and clips of Burt in his feature film debut. Hmm, is that Oscar calling? Client: Constantin Film Produktion GmbH , Munich

View 28meg QuickTime from the feature film

The worlds worst Park Ranger & Burt combine to wreak havoc with 2 lovers at a romantic picnic in the woods.

Prod: "Big Robot" Advertising, NYC

View 7m .mpg formatted spot

Burtrams' 1st still photo shoot
for a greeting card company!

Burtram was caught on film, paw in honey jar, courtesy of Simon Griffiths Photography in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Fortunately for Burt, he got to take home the props afterwards! :-9

Burt dives into Piranha Pictures
Kentucky Lottery spot:

"Bearly There"

...for a lucky 'scratch'

View Bearly There spot (QuickTime- .8meg)

WWF meets Call of the Wild!

 

What do bears do in the woods? Ask Centaur Creative of Boise, Idaho. (video quality unfortunately poor as source tape went bad)

 

Click for 5meg AVI video ----- Click for 2meg QuickTime video

Burt's 1st visit to Vancouver, BC in 2002

to film a spot for Canfisco's GoldSeal Salmon:

View "Bear Heist" (1M QuickTime)

Sustained Quadrupedal Bear Walk (no audio)

Burt's 3rd Canadian gig, returning to Vancouver for another indie project featuring realistic bear impersonation. The combination of a talented director, careful camera positioning, effective use of the natural landscape and practiced movement yielded a realistic bear performance. Footage is dark- video brightness & contrast must be bumped up to see the action clearly. There is no sound in these 2 experimental film clips. Save to disk for local playback and to allow increasing the video viewing size.

Mimicking realistic quadrupedal bear behavior in Alberta, Canada. Here are video clips from Burt's 2nd gig in Canada in the summer of 2005:

Clip One- 26 meg QuickTime

Clip Two- 35 meg QuickTime

What do bears do in the woods? They play chess, of course! Burt goes one on one with... himself in this double exposure magazine ad series for the 2005 Hyundai Elantra. <awaiting photos from Team Halprin>

Client: Team Halprin , Beverly Hills, CA.

Example Clips from miscellaneous video projects over the years

Click the descriptive links to the right -->

 1) Burt the Bear after a light rainfall (QuickTime, .7 megs)