Video bio of Susan Bartlett, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2007.
Producer: Sue Staton;
Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners;
Elizabeth Susan Bartlett worked WTTV-TV from 1949 to 1959 in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana, where she worked in traffic, continuity, photo and art departments, then later as program director. During this time, Bartlett founded the Indiana Chapter of American Women in Radio & Television and served as its president for four years. She also spent eight years working for Indianapolis advertising agencies, being named the city’s Ad Woman of the Year in 1968. Outside of Indiana, she worked in Detroit as production manager for National Television News, where she produced news film for national clients, as well as wrote, produced and directed a documentary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, which won first place at the New York International Film Festival. Bartlett produced more films for government agencies in Washington, D.C., before moving there and working as the audiovisual officer for the U.S. National Science Foundation, where she produced radio and television programs that aired on commercial and public broadcasting stations and for school use. She would return to Bloomington and die there on Sept. 22, 2018 at 91 years old.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers