- Date Of Birth: July 25, 1958
- Date Of Death: February 22, 2021
- State: Florida
Darrell Wayne Moore, 62, passed away unexpectedly due to a fall at his home in Winter Park, Florida on Monday, February 22, 2021. Darrell was a brilliant author, educator, and filmmaker. He was born July 25, 1958 in Shelbyville, KY to Gene A. Moore and Betty Demaree Moore.
Darrell Moore graduated from the Advanced Program from Durrett High School in Louisville, KY in 1976 having earned many prestigious scholarships. He began his college career attending Brown University in Rhode Island from 1976 – 1978, and then transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL to earn his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking in 1981.
Darrell has been involved in education for more than 28 years, designing multimedia for K-12 science curricula, teaching at the collegiate level, and creating corporate eLearning materials for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. While in college in Chicago, Darrell worked as projectionist for the movie theatre that famous movie critics Siskel & Ebert watched the films to assess and do their critiques.
Darrell started in long career from 1982- 1985 as Editor-in-Chief of Video Times magazine with Publications International, Ltd.
He later shared his filmmaking knowledge as an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics and Video Compositing at Columbia College in Chicago from 1993 to 1996 and taught twenty classes including six which he wrote and developed himself: Video Compositing & Computer Effects Design; Computer Graphics & Video II; Computer Arts: Digital Culture; Advanced Compositing Techniques; Interactive Web Design; and Multimedia Seminar.
While in Chicago, Darrell helped to pioneer the application of new media into the global culture as co-founder, Editorial Director and Multimedia Designer of New Media with Swell Media from 1994 – 1997. There he helped introduce and integrate Fortune 100 companies into the new possible applications of new media, multimedia, www web domains, CD-ROMs, digital media with clients including Uarco, Searle Pharmaceutical, Nabisco, Philip Morris, U.S. Robotics, & Chevrolet.
Darrell served as the New Media Director from 1997 – 2001 at Post FX in Chicago, a video post-production & special effects studio. There he oversaw the development of all interactive projects undertaken within the facility with clients including Accenture, Proctor & Gamble, Ameritrade, A & E, Bill Kurtis, Alligator Records, J. Brown & Associates, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, & Cisco.
He served as the Lead Developer, Chicago Media Lab from 2001-2006 where he Created online, CD-ROM and DVD-based presentations and instructional materials for a variety of client including Wall Street , Virtual Learning Systems, Storandt, Pann & Margolis, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Aventis, IFCJ (International Fellowship of Christians & Jews), & North American Real Estate Association and worked at Chicago Media Lab as Lead Developer from 2001 – 2006.
His commercial eLearning design and programming work includes such clients as Pfizer, Roche, Searle, TAP, Abbot, Takeda, Glaxo Wellcome, Sanofi-Avantis, University of Chicago Hospitals, Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes, and Humana Corporation. Darrell Moore has written several books on film history, including “Horror Films: The Best, Worst and Most Unusual,” “Rating the Movie Stars,” and “The Great Movies” (12 volume genre series). He was also editor-inchief of Video Times magazine for several years. Darrell wrote, produced, and directed several original productions for home video release, including “Great Crimes of the Century,” “Oliver North: Memo to History,” “Chicago Politics” and “The Speeches Collection: JFK, MLK & FDR.” Some of Darrell’s early 16mm work, including “Quantum: A Lamentation” and “Starting in the Middle of the Day, We Can Drink Our Politics Away,” are available for rental from the Film-Maker’s Cooperative in New York.
He moved to Florida after the death of his brother and collaborator, David Moore in 2007 and had been employed as Course Professor at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida until his passing. There he served as Course Director for Editing Digital Video in the Digital Arts Degree program. During his time at Full Sail University, Darrell created curriculum and taught “Introduction to Digital Video”, “Digital Literacy”, and “Creative Presentation” introducing students to the primary concepts of storytelling, sound design, imaging, and editing.
Darrell’s excellence as an author, educator, and filmmaker was surpassed only by his dedication to providing his students with the best possible educational experience.
BOOKS WRITTEN BY DARRELL MOORE
“Improving Online Communication”, Teaching with Technology, May 2014, Volume 1, Apple iBook, Author.
“Nature Is Leaving Us: A Video Theatre Work”, Leonardo The Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press Vol. 26 No. 1, February, pp. 3, 11-20, Co-author.
Great Crimes of the 20th Century, 1991. Crown Books. 512 pp.
World War II in Color, 1990. Crown Books. 600 pp. Picture Researcher.
The Illustrated History of Tanks, 1989. Publications International. 150 pp. Picture Researcher.
The Best Video Films, 1984. Warner Books. 256 pp. Editor.
Your Guide to [Foreign, Horror, Musical, Science Fiction, Children’s, Action/Adventure, Western, Drama, Comedy, Mystery/Suspense, Fantasy, War] Video Tapes and Discs, 1985. Signet Books. 128 pp each. Editor. (12 book series).
Rating the Movie Stars, 1983. Publications International. 384 pp. Editor, Co-Author.
Rating the Movies, 1983, 1984, 1985 editions. Beekman House/Crown. 512 pp. Editor.
Best, Worst and Most Unusual Horror Films, 1983. Beekman House/Crown. 160 pp. Author.
Best, Worst and Most Unusual Musicals, 1983. Beekman House/Crown. 160 pp. Editor.
VIDEOS CREATED BY DARRELL MOORE
Famous Speeches series: John F. Kennedy (1988) 59 m.; Martin Luther King (1988) 52 m.
CoverUp (1988) 80 m. A look at the CIA implications of the Iran/Contra scandal. Producer: Barbara Trent. Supervised production.
Foreign TV Commercials (1988) 29 m.
Mao’s Little Red Video (1988) 34 m. A re-editing of a Red Chinese propaganda film from the Cultural Revolution era. Producer.
The Great Gleason (1987) 87 m. A biography of the TV comic, with ample show clips. Producer: Jeff Forester. Supervised production.
The Confessions of Bernhard Goetz (1987) 84 m. An examination of the story and motives of the famous subway vigilante. Director: Eric Shaun. Producer.
Oliver North: Memo to History (1987) 88 m. A condensed compilation of the Senate testimony at the Iran/Contra hearings. Producer.
Help! The Music Videos (1987) 24 m. Five music videos culled from the Beatles film, Help!, to promote its release on videocassette.
Great Crimes of the Century (1986) 70 m. A news anthology program that details the exploits of several famous crimes. Co-Writer, Producer.
