Mary Ellen Bute Interactive Authoring Presentation Project By: Les, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Mary Ellen Bute Interactive Authoring Presentation Project By: Les, Taylor, Austin and Kevon

Mary Ellen Bute’s Life - Grew up in Houston, Texas. Born November 25, 1906. - Received a scholarship to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Attended Yale for stage lighting and ran the switchboard - Was a founding member of the Women’s Independent Film Exchange - Died October 17th, 1983

Start of Her Career - Thomas Wilfred’s color organ - Introduced to filmmaking from Joseph Schillinger - 1934 to 1959, 11 abstract films were played in theaters Thomas Wilfred, inventor of the Clavilux. Synchornization (1934), Joseph Schillinger and Lewis Jacobs; Polka Graph (1952) Mary Ellen Bute drawings by Mary Ellen Bute

List of works-main ideas -Abstract films with visuals synced with sound -Basic idea of visual music - SEEING SOUND -Painting and lighting background transferred over into her films - most visuals move and show emotion/change based on lighting and shape (examples: Synchromy no. 2, Synchromy no. 4) Had an unreleased/unfinished piece, “Synchromy” and worked with Joseph Schillinger - One of her first pieces, painting frames so detailed it would be too complicated to finish

Filmograph Synchromy No. 1 (Short) 1934 Polka Graph (Short) 1947 Rhythm in Light (Short) 1934 Color Rhapsodie (Short) 1948 Synchromy No. 2 (Short) 1935 Pastoral (Short) 1950 Dada (Short) 1936 Abstronic (Short) 1952 Parabola (Short) 1937 Mood Contrasts (Short) 1953 Synchromy No. 4 Escape (Short) 1937 Imaginations (Short) 1958 Spook Sport (Short) 1939 RCA: New Sensations in sound (Short) 1959 Tarantella (Short) 1940 Passages from James Joyce’s Finnagans Wake 1966

Synchromy #4: Escape 1937 -Used Conventional Animation for the main themes in the music -Used special effects into the background (swirling liquids, clouds, fireworks, etc.) -Imploding/exploding circles, triangles, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmu- GcClls

Spook Short (1940) -Spook Short (1940): Cel Animation with drawn-on-film effects -She matched the movements more to the mood of the music than to the actual notes https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6wXTx9BKENs

Abstronic (1952) -Used her own paintings with surrealistic depth perspective -Zooming in/out in rhythmic pulsations synched with “hoe down” music. -Patterns drawn over background using an oscilloscope.

Moon Contrast (1953) -Grids of colored light shot through glass bricks/ cut-glass plate -Used oscilloscope to create the backgrounds and the colored liquids clouds

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