Mary Ellen Bute
Directing · Director · Treatment · Script
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