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Media Process Group was originally formed by Bob Hercules and David Beaton in 1985...

after Hercules’ former employer shut down his company and moved to Los Angeles.  Hercules, now jobless, figured “I can do that” and approached Beaton about this idea. With no money, no investors and no equipment to speak of, Hercules and Beaton boldly began what has become a 28-year adventure.  Within 3 months of forming the ‘company’ Hercules’ old college friend, Bruce Lixey, joined the enterprise.   The first MPG ‘office’ was located in a loft space on Damen Avenue in Wicker Park (well before that neighborhood’s current trendiness.)

The original vision of MPG was to have a profit-making production company support their desire to produce independent documentaries. The goal was to take projects from script to screen, entirely in-house, if possible (something about ‘controlling the means of production’—according to Beaton).

MPG’s first major paying gig was a compelling video about an automobile paint process for Durr Industries, which they shot in Oklahoma City.  This project allowed the boys to buy their first camera and remain penniless. MPG’s first big break was shooting and editing (on site) the Miller Lite Collegiate Ski Tournament in Killington, Vermont in 1987.  Also that year MPG moved into swanky new offices in the fashionable River North district, bought their first edit system and hired Keith Walker (who was to eventually become one of the owners of the company).