Talk:Mary Ellen Bute

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This statement is unrferenced and I cannot find any RS that she was a founding member of the Women's Independent Film Exchange. Removed from main space.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:31, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bute was a founding member of the Women's Independent Film Exchange. She chose film historian Cecile Starr to distribute her short films.

Removed unsourced list off main space. Return only with citations. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:25, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Filmography

Synchromy (unfinished film)|Synchromy]] – 1933, collaboration with Joseph Schillinger and Lewis Jacobs [unfinished].
Rhythm in Light – 1934 (b&w, 5 min.) in collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth.
Synchromy No. 2 – 1935 (b&w, 5.5 min.) music: Evening Star from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner.
Dada (1936 film) – 1936 (b&w, 3min.) short for Universal Newsreel.
Parabola (1937 film) – 1937 (b&w, 9 min.) music: Création du monde by Darius Milhaud.
Synchromy No. 4 - Escape (1937 film)|Synchromy No.4 - Escape]] – 1937 (color, 4.5 min.) music: Toccata in D Minor by J.S. Bach.
Spook Sport – 1939 (color, 8 min.) music: Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. Animation by Norman McLaren.
Tarantella (1940 film) – 1940 (color, 5 min.)
Polka Graph – 1947 (color, 4.5 min.) music: Dmitri Shostakovich's Polka from The Age of Gold.
Color Rhapsodie (1937 film) – 1948 (color, 6 min.)
Pastorale (1950 film) – 1950 (color, 9 min.) music: Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze.
Abstronic – 1952 (color, 7 min.) music: Aaron Copland's Hoe Down and Don Gillis's Ranch House Party.
Mood Contrasts – 1953 (color, 7 min.)
Imagination (1957 film) – 1957 (color) compilation background for musical sequence, Steve Allen Show (November 17, 1957)
The Boy Who Saw Through – 1958 (b&w, 25 min.) (producer) stars a young Christopher Walken [not abstract].
New Sensations in Sound – 1959 (color, 3 min.) advertising film for RCA.
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake – 1965–67 (b&w, 97 min.) (director and co-writer) screened at the Cannes Film Festival [not abstract].

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