Rani Singh is a woman, head of the Harry Smith Archives, who also works at
the Getty Research Institute, and directed the film:
The Old Weird America: Harry Smithıs Anthology of American Folk Music (which
I co-produced).
She knows her Harry Smith, but I donıt think she is on Frameworks.
On 6/15/11 12:00 PM, "Damon" <damonccny_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Smith:
>
> In the recent book from the Getty: Harry Smith: the Avant-Garde in the
> American Vernacular, Rani Singh writes in his contribution "Harry Smith, An
> Ethnographic Modernist" about Smith "volunteering" to do library research for
> the program, and then in July of 1947 being asked by Frank Stauffacher to
> travel to LA on the program's behalf. Smith screened work with Art in Cinema
> in Oct. '47, Sept. '48, Feb. '49, May '50, and Apr. '51. It is unclear from
> the essay how he extricated himself from Art in Cinema, or which month he left
> San Francisco, but Smith moved to New York City in sometime in 1951 (probably
> early) for he received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation in May of 1950
> which would act as a partial financial impetus to moving east.
>
> Damon.
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Michael Betancourt wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping someone can help me with two historical questions:
>>
>> (1) When did Harry Smith start working at Art In Cinema, and how long was he
>> there?
>>
>> I am under the impression he had left by 1950, but don't know when he
>> started.
>>
>> (2) John Whitney mentions working with Saul Bass on title sequences, but I
>> know of only the Vertigo title. Which others, if any, did he work on? I know
>> UPA did film titles, were they responsible for the animation of Bass's work?
>>
>> Odd questions, I know.
>>
>> Thanks for any help, on or off list.
>>
>> Michael Betancourt
>> Savannah, GA USA
>>
>>
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