Skyscraper (1959 film)

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Skyscraper
Screenplay byJohn White[4]
Produced by
Music byTeo Macero[5][6]
Release date
1959[1][2][3]
Running time
21 minutes[1][2]
CountryUSA[1]

Skyscraper is a 1959 film by Shirley Clarke about the construction of the 666 Fifth Avenue skyscraper.

Production

It was a short film,[7][8] and was experimental.[5][9] As well as Clarke and Van Dyke contributing it also involved Wheaton Galentine and D. A. Pennebaker.[10]

Plot

The construction of 666 Fifth Avenue is shown.[2]

Reception

It won the Venice Film Festival award.[2][11] It was also nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar),[12] winning one in the Best Short Live Action category[13] in 1959.[14] It also won many other festival prizes.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Willard Van Dyke, Shirley Clarke. Skyscraper. 1959". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b c d Harbert, Benjamin J. (2018). "The Use and Abuse of Musicological Concepts". American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780819578020. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Carney, Ray. "The Beat Movement: Beat Screening List". Boston University. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Bridges and Skyscrapers: shorts program". Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c d e f Lev, Peter; Ellis, Jack C.; Faller, Greg S.; Neve, Brian; O'Donnell, Victoria; Wasko, Janet (2006). "American Documentary in the 1950s". In Harpole, Charles (ed.). The Fifties Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959. History of the American Cinema. Vol. 7. University of California Press. pp. 242–243. ISBN 9780520249660. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ^ Grant, Barry Keith (2011). "Growing Up Absurd: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent". Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 109. ISBN 0814334571. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  7. ^ Vallance, Tom (26 September 1997). "Obituary: Shirley Clarke". The Independent. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ Dargis, Manohla. "The Shirley Clarke Project by Milestone Films". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Cohen, Thomas F. (2012). "Independent Cinema meets Free Jazz". Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema. Columbia University Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780231501804. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  10. ^ Beattie, Keith (2011-09-28). "Performing the Real". D.A. Pennebaker. Contemporary Film Directors. Vol. 146. University of Illinois Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780252036590. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). "Clarke, Shirley". Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 88. ISBN 9780313289729. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Bebb, Bruce (Spring 1982). "The Many Media of Shirley Clarke". Journal of the University Film and Video Association. 34 (2). University of Illinois Press on behalf of the University Film & Video Association: 3. JSTOR 20686887.
  13. ^ "Project Shirley: Short Films by Shirley Clarke". Los Angeles Filmforum. March 3, 2015. Archived from the original on July 24, 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Edinburgh International Film Festival. "EIFF Biography of Shirley Clarke". EdinburghGuide. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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