A fervent and long-time supporter of experimental film and filmmakers, Cecile also worked tirelessly to spread the word about film as a medium of instruction and social change. She reviewed educational and sponsored films for Saturday Review and Educational Screen for years. Much of her writing on films that are only now starting to be reappreciated is collected in her Ideas on Film book (1951), which I'll try to get scanned soon. Here is a key to some of her pieces and mentions of her:
http://lantern.mediahist.org/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=cecile+starr I spoke to her regularly in the late 1990s while chasing down information on the New York school of educational and sponsored makers (Irving Jacoby, Alexander Hammid, Willard Van Dyke, Virginia Bell and many others). No one else could have contributed the leads and ideas that she did. Rick Rick Prelinger / @footage Prelinger Archives, San Francisco http://www.prelinger.com [email protected] Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz [email protected] Prelinger Library (http://www.prelingerlibrary.org), a member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting to artists (http://www.theintersection.org). _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
