What a Super Man

1996

Christopher Reeve

in “Gifts Beyond Healing”

We’ve created thousands of video projects since 1980, so the attic has gotten rather large.

Let’s open one of the boxes and see what’s there. Ah yes, Superman.

Christopher Reeve was a joy to shoot with. And his wife Dana couldn’t have been more welcoming when we arrived at their home in Bedford, NY in 1996, just a few months after his accident.

We were there to tape a brief open and close to a documentary we had produced about a university program for students with spinal cord injuries titled “Gifts Beyond Healing.”


The thing we’ll always remember about the shoot is Mr. Reeve’s eagerness to continue doing additional takes even after we had a good one. He labored to pull enough air into his lungs to deliver each sentence, but he insisted on trying to do another take and then another until he was satisfied.

You’ll see Mr. Reeve at his best in this outtake – as he insists on doing more takes.

He even apologized for not having the strength to live up to his expectations.

In the end, he delivered a message more powerful than Superman.