Skyscraper (1959 film)

Skyscraper
Produced by
Screenplay by John White[2]
Music by Teo Macero[1][3]
Release date
 1959[4][5][6]
Running time
 21 minutes[4][5]
Country USA[4]

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.[1][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.[5]

Reception

It won the Venice Film Festival award.[5][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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lev, Peter; Ellis, Jack C.; Faller, Greg S.; Neve, Brian; O'Donnell, Victoria; Wasko, Janet (2006). "American Documentary in the 1950s". In Harpole, Charles. The Fifties Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959. History of the American Cinema. 7. University of California Press. pp. 242–243. ISBN 9780520249660. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 "Willard Van Dyke, Shirley Clarke. Skyscraper. 1959". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 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.
  6. ↑ Carney, Ray. "The Beat Movement: Beat Screening List". Boston University. 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.
  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.
  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. 146. University of Illinois Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780252036590. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.
  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.
  12. ↑ Bebb, Bruce (Spring 1982). "The Many Media of Shirley Clarke". Journal of the University Film and Video Association. University of Illinois Press on behalf of the University Film & Video Association. 34 (2): 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.
  14. ↑ Edinburgh International Film Festival. "EIFF Biography of Shirley Clarke". EdinburghGuide. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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