[Shirley Clarke home movies] [motion picture] [1926-1955]

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[Shirley Clarke home movies] [motion picture] [1926-1955]

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Home movies from the collection of filmmaker and videographer Shirley Brimberg Clarke. Includes film of her as a child, with her family, and various friends.

20 film reels of 20 (ca. 6,000 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. arch pos.

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...