Mary Ellen Bute (November 211906 - October 17 1983) was a pioneer film animator who did much of her work in visual music. She was one of the first female experimental filmmakers in the U.S. From 1934 until 1953, she made 14 short, musical abstract films, working in New York. Many of these were seen in regular U.S. movie theaters, such as Radio City Music Hall, often before a prestigious film. Several of her films were also called "Seeing Sound" films. Wikipedia
As with many pioneer animators, Mary Ellen Bute is hardly known today, primarily because her films are not easily available in good prints. www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/moritz1.2.html
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Contents: About the Centennial Program - About the Films - Finnegans Wake - Selected Statements by Bute About her Films www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Bute.htm
