Mary Ellen Bute [SEP] place of birth
Biography.
A native of Houston, Mary Ellen Bute studied painting in Texas and, subsequently, Philadelphia, then stage lighting at Yale University. She studied the tradition of color organs, as a means of painting with light. She worked with Leon Theremin and Thomas Wilfred and was also influenced by the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger.
Bute began her filmmaking career collaborating with Joseph Schillinger on the animation of visuals. Her later films were made in partnership with her cinematographer Ted Nemeth whom she married in 1940.
Wake" – 1965–67, b&w, 97 mins. (director and co-writer) [not abstract] Screened at the Cannes Film Festival
External links.
- Mary Ellen Bute: Seeing Sound contains errata
- "Mary Ellen Bute, Film Maker" (age is given, apparently erroneously, as 79), "New York Times" obituary of] October 19, 1983)
- A guide to the Mary Ellen Bute Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- A guide to the