A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Bob Balton
Rob Ballon
Robert Balton
Camera Operator:
1995 Hole: MTV Unplugged
1998 Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
1999 My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
2001 Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
2001 Putting It Together
2002 Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller
2003 Mostly Sondheim
2009 Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush
2011 Patrice O'Neal: Elephant in the Room
Cinematography:
1995 Hole: MTV Unplugged
1998 Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
1999 My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
2001 Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
2001 Putting It Together
2002 Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller
2003 Mostly Sondheim
2009 Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush
2011 Patrice O'Neal: Elephant in the Room
2021 Dave Chappelle: The Closer
Jimmy Jib Operator:
1995 Hole: MTV Unplugged
1998 Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
1999 My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
2001 Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
2001 Putting It Together
2002 Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller
2003 Mostly Sondheim
2009 Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush
2011 Patrice O'Neal: Elephant in the Room
2012 Katie Does Manhattan
2021 Dave Chappelle: The Closer
Camera Operator:
1956 Tony Awards
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.