Gordon Weisenborn (March 20, 1923 – October 4, 1987) was an American director, producer, writer, and cinematographer specializing in sponsored and educational films.
[3] Before his death, Weisenborn gave the rights to his films to Jack Behrend, an industrial filmmaker who he was good friends with.
[8][9] Over the course of his career, Gordon Weisenborn tried his hand as director, cinematographer, editor, writer, and producer, specializing in educational and sponsored films.
[1][10] Weisenborn's career was highly influenced through his friendship with John Barnes and his wife Selma Revsin, and with them he created several films.
[1] Weisenborn directed When Asia Speaks (1944) with producer Stuart Legg throughout his early career while he worked at the National Film Board of Canada.
[2][17] Although the film makes use of stylistic techniques typical of a documentary, it incorporates a somewhat mythic storyline as it traces ethnicities down the Mississippi River.
[17][19] Weisenborn worked as associate producer for another Academy Award nominee, The Naked Eye (1956), alongside director Louis Clyde Stoumen.
[3][24] Weisenborn also directed the feature length horror exploitation film Prime Time (1960) alongside producer Herschell Gordon Lewis.
[26] Weisenborn shot and directed Water is Wet (1969) for the television program The Metooshow, which aired on Chicago Public TV.
Using water as a motif, the film was intended to inspire children to learn through experience and connect them with their feelings.