Cecile Starr papers relating to Mary Ellen Bute 1935-2008

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Cecile Starr papers relating to Mary Ellen Bute 1935-2008

The Cecile Starr Papers Relating to Mary Ellen Bute consist of Starr's research files on the filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute and audiovisual recordings of and about Bute. The papers document Starr's research and fundraising to produce a documentary film about Bute (never completed) as well as Starr's work to publicize and distribute Bute's films, especially after Bute's death.

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Bute, Mary Ellen

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Motion picture director. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, May 27, 1980 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862264 Mary Ellen Bute was a film animator, director and producer based in New York City. She was a pioneer in adopting electronic techniques for film animation. Early in her career she made animated films of the "visual music" style which synchronized abstract images and music. Her later films wer...

Starr, Cecile, 1921-

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Filmmaker, frlm writer, and educator Cecile Starr was born in Nashville, TN (July 14, 1921) and grew up in New Orleans, LA. She received a B.A. in Romance Languages (LSU, 1941) and a masters degree in Adult Education (Columbia University. Teachers College, 1952); after which she taught film history and criticism in Columbia's Graduate Film department (1955-1961). Starr worked as non-thratrical writer and editor for the quarterly "Film Forum Review" (1946-1949) and the weekly "Saturd...

Bute, Mary Ellen

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Mary Ellen Bute was a film animator, director and producer. She was a pioneer in adopting electronic techniques for film animation. Early in her career she made animated films in the "visual music" style that synchronized abstract images and music. Her later films were live action and included adaptations of works by James Joyce and Thornton Wilder. Bute was born in Houston, Texas in 1906. She studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadephia and l...