[Interview with Shirley Clarke] [motion picture] / [production company unknown] 1956-02-29.

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[Interview with Shirley Clarke] [motion picture] / [production company unknown] 1956-02-29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173697662

Television interview filmed while Shirley Clarke was in Minneapolis for screenings of two of her first three films (Dance in the Sun and Bullfight). She talks briefly about how she got into film making.

1 film reel of 1 (101 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. print (AB 767)1 film reel of 1 (101 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. arch pos (AC 901)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997

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Born in New York, Shirley Clarke first made waves as a dancer studying with modern choreographers like Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Doris Humphrey. In early short films, such as A Dance in the Sun (1953), Bullfight (1955), and Bridges Go Round (1958), she successfully fused her interests in choreography and cinema. Subsequent feature films The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1964), and Portrait of Jason (1967) were landmarks of independent cinema, charting an uncompromising path through con...