Films
Shelby Storck continued in radio and television work through the 1950s, working between Kansas City and St. Louis, making documentary films which he often narrated as well as produced. He frequently acted in industrial and educational films produced by the Calvin Company of Kansas City and by the Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas. There, he worked with such notable directors as Robert Altman and Herk Harvey. In 1954 he became general manager of KETC in St. Louis, an educational television station.
From 1955 to 1966 Storck was associated with Charles Guggenheim of St. Louis as a director and narrator of documentary and commercial movies produced by Guggenheim. Among the fims Storck made while associated with Guggenheim were several award-winning documentaries on St. Louis history. Storck remarried, to longtime friend Jacqueline Field, in 1956. In 1960 the Storcks moved from Kansas City to St. Louis. In 1966, when Charles Guggenheim transferred his operations to Washington, D.C., Storck formed his own production company in St. Louis, Shelby Storck & Associates, Inc., and began producing documentaries and commercials. He was best known for making half-hour campaign biographies for politicians, mostly under the direction of media consultant Joe Napolitan, including successful films for Milton Shapp, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Mike Gravel. In 1968 Storck wrote, produced, and directed a half-hour promotional documentary on Hubert Humphrey called What Manner of Man, which was hugely instrumental in Humphrey's sudden surge in the polls towards the end of his unsuccessful race against Richard Nixon for President of the United States.
Shelby Storck had been diagnosed with heart disease and was under a doctor's care for several months. He died in his sleep, apparently after a heart attack, at home in St. Louis in April 1969. His wife, Jackie, was on the way by air to Taiwan to visit a sister when he died, and funeral arrangements had to be delayed for several days until she could return to St. Louis.
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