Mary Ellen Bute
Directing · Director · Treatment · Producer
Born Nov 21, 1906 · Houston, Texas
Active 1934–1983
A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute directed along with her husband Ted Nemeth over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s to the 1950s.
Filmography
Synchromy No. 2 (1935) — DirectorPassages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1967) — Director · Treatment · Script · Editor · ProducerNew Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor (1956) — DirectorTarantella (1940) — DirectorEscape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937) — Director · Production DesignSpook Sport (1940) — DirectorAbstronic (1952) — DirectorRhythm in Light (1934) — DirectorMood Contrasts (1958) — DirectorParabola (1937) — DirectorDada (1936) — DirectorPolka Graph (1947) — DirectorPastorale (1950) — DirectorColor Rhapsodie (1948) — DirectorThe Boy Who Saw Through (1956) — ProducerSynchromy No. 1 (1934) — Director