Eagle, Arnold
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Eagle, Arnold 1909-1992
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American photographer and cinematographer who collaborated with Hans Richter.
American photographer who collaborated with Hans Richter.
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A Hungarian-born photographer and cinematographer, Arnold Eagle is known for his documentary images of Jewish emigrant and urban life on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Eagle immigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1929 and accepted a position working for the WPA in 1935. During the 1940s he began working with the artist Roy Striker and was later sent as a still photographer and cameraman to Louisiana to work with Robert J. Flaherty on his film Louisana story . Prior to leaving for Louisiana, Eagle met Hans Richter, the German-born Dadaist and filmmaker, and began what would become a life-long friendship. They collaborated on a number of films including: Dreams that money can buy, 1944-1947, 8x8, 1950-1957, A Chess sonata in eight episodes for color film, 1954-1957, Chesscetera (Passionate Pastime), 1956-1957, Dadascope, 1956-1961, and the creation of an animation film, 1970-1971, based on Kasimir Malevich's script of 1927. Eagle became an instructor of cinematography at the New School for Social Research in 1955.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/292648649
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr93002689
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4795235
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Animation (Cinematography)
Art and motion pictures
Art and state
Artists at or with their work
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Cinematography, Abstract
Dadaism in motion pictures
Documentary films
Experimental films
Federal aid to the arts
New Deal, 1933-1939
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