I’m forwarding to the list this email, below, from a lady who has written a biography of Mary Ellen Bute and is seeking recommendations about getting it published. If you want to help her, please don’t reply to this, contact her directly. It seems like a worthy contribution to the historical record.
> On May 9, 2016, at 12:46 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Mr. Youngblood. > > My filmmaker son Bill Basquin, who met you and your wife recently at the > Experiments in Cinema Festival in Albuquerque, NM, gave me your e-mail > address through the Frameworks list, and suggested I write you. > > I have written a biography of pioneer experimental filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute > (1906–1983) who won a Cannes film festival Prize for directing PASSAGES FROM > JAMES JOYCE’S FINNEGANS WAKE in 1965. Bute was the first person to interpret > Joyce for the screen. A Houston debutante and amateur artist, Bute escaped > into the New York world of filmmaking in 1934. > > With her ace cameraman and future husband Ted Nemeth, Bute directed 13 > abstract animated shorts, including the first film in the USA to incorporate > electronic imagery in 1952, the forerunner of digital cinema. She completed > three films before she saw those of Oskar Fischinger, with whom she is often > compared. My biography includes never published film stills and Bute family > photographs, as well as interviews with some of the people who worked on FW, > and extensive interviews with Ted Nemeth on technical aspects of the film. > With a PhD in art history, I relate Bute’s early paintings and films to the > art world 1930–1960. > > A friend of Bute, I started interviewing her family and associates the year > after she died. I retired from thirteen years at The Metropolitan Museum of > Art in 2014. I have lectured extensively, as a former curator of education, > and written for ART IN PRINT, WOMAN’S ART JOURNAL, FlashPointMag.com > <http://flashpointmag.com/>, and ANGLES: WOMEN WORKING IN FILM AND VIDEO. In > February, 2016, I introduced Bute’s FW for a film showing at the Yale Film > Study Center. > > Can you suggest publishers or book agents who might be interested in this > type of manuscript? Thank you in advance for your help. > > Sincerely, Kit Smyth Basquin, PhD ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>)
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