Pony R. Horton

Tehachapi, CA. Currently Pony is creating visual effects, as well as doing some acting, on the award-winning web-based show STAR TREK: PHASE II. Most of his work on the show revolves around creating the Transporter effects. [June 2010]

In 2007, worked closely as an editor with then-92 year old actor and magician John Calvert, re-editing, color-correcting, and restoring Calvert's 1956 film "Dark Venture," which Calvert has re-released under the title "Curse Of The Elephant's Graveyard.".

Currently lives in the Tehachapi, California, with his cats and his lifemate Darryl, where he produces/edits videos and creates graphic arts. [December 2006]

By late 1994, Pony was back in Los Angeles, doing freelance journalism for several newspapers and magazines.

One photo/story combination garnered him the First Place Virginia Press Association award in 1993.

In 1992, Pony left the west coast to move to the Washington, D. C. suburb of Reston, Virginia.

There he joined the staff of the Times Community Newspapers as a photojournalist and writer, publishing hundreds of images and dozens of articles from 1992 to 1994.

Pony R. Horton is an American filmmaker/journalist/actor of Irish and Cherokee descent. He has lent his talents, usually in the area of technical or visual effects work, to a number of low-and-medium budget feature films, four of which were produced by Roger Corman, including Masque of the Red Death (1989), and Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (1989), as a matte artist/cinematographer.

He also created matte paintings and photography for the Paulco films Fate, and Eternity (1989) both of which were co-produced by actor Jon Voight.

In 1983, Pony began producing and directing TV commercials for the local Los Angeles market, including the first AIDS Awareness Public Service Announcements ever aired in the U. S.

By the late 1980s, Pony was one of the main operators of the Mitsubishi IMAX Theater at the California Museum of Science & Industry.

Pony began his career in film, as do many, as a "gofer" and janitor/general laborer at Van der Veer Photo Effects, as well as working as a projectionist at Valley Projection, both in 1978 in Burbank, California.

At Van der Veer, he was one of a small staff who lent their talents on a number of films, including Star Trek The Motion Picture; Superman; and Pony created certain specific effects for 1941 and Nightwing, mostly doing rotoscoping. By 1982, Pony had become the Director of Photography at Valley Cable TV's Public Access studio, where he was in charge of the 3-camera studio and supervised the lighting and photography on over 120 1/2-hour talk shows. During that time, Pony created and produced a public affairs program called Whipping Around L. A. ! which featured places of cultural and recreational interest in the Southland.

Pony can also trace part of his family tree to one Richard Brackett, who arrived with the pilgrims at Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1630.