H. W. Kier

Harley William Kier (April 10, 1891 in Highland County, Ohio – February 4, 1967 in San Antonio, Texas), was an American film producer who produced many low-budget short films and a few feature films almost exclusively in and around San Antonio, Texas.[1]

Kier partnered with A.A. Phillips in 1926 and founded Kier-Phillips productions. They produced short commercial and industrial films. They created National Pictures Gulf Coast Studios in the 1930s and continued making shorts, most of which have not survived.

Kier did little producing in the 1940s but worked on some of the race films made in Texas by Sack Amusement Company. In 1955 and 1956, Kier produced a series of comedy shorts in Spanish called Chepo y Kayote[1]

Filmography
gollark: If you require everyone/a majority to say "yes, let us make the thing" publicly, then you probably won't get any of the thing - if you say "yes, let us make the thing" then someone will probably go "wow, you are a bad/shameful person for supporting the thing".
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.
gollark: I also think that if you decide what to produce via social things instead of the current financial mechanisms, you would probably have less innovation (if you have a cool new thing™, you have to convince a lot of people it's a good idea, rather than just convincing a few specialized people that it's good enough to get some investment) and could get stuck in weird signalling loops.
gollark: So it's possible to be somewhat insulated from whatever bizarre trends are sweeping things.
gollark: In a capitalistic system, people don't have to like me as long as I can throw money at them, see.

References
  1. Thompson, Frank. Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio Since 1910. San Antonio: Maverick Publishing Company, 2002. pp 42-44.


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