Hilary Tjader Harris (December 9, 1929 – October 26, 1999) was a documentary

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

, one of the pioneers of

time-lapse photography Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus ...

. The documentary, ''

Seawards the Great Ships ''Seawards the Great Ships'' is a 1961 British short documentary film directed by Hilary Harris. It won an Oscar in 1962 for Best Short Live Action Subject, the first Scottish film to win an Academy Award. The film chronicles the Shipbuildi ...

'', directed by Harris, won the

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...

in 1962.

Filmography

* ''Longhorn'' (1951) * ''Generation'' (1956) * ''Highway'' (1958) *
Polaris Action 1960
' * ''

'' (1961) * ''The Dialogues of Archibald Macleish and

Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...

'' (1962) * ''The Walk'' (1962) * ''The Farmer and I'' (1963) * ''Seas of Sweet Water'' (1964) * ''The Squeeze'' (1964) * ''Patterns for Communication'' (1966) * ''9 Variations on a Dance Theme'' (1966) * ''

The Nuer ''The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People'' is an ethnographical study by the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–73) first published in 1940. The work examined the polit ...

'' (1970) *
Organism
' (1975) * ''Technology in Public Service'' (1976) * ''South Street Seaport'' (1976)

Notes

A DVD, titled The Films of Hilary Harris, was released by Mystic Fire Video in 2006. The four films on the DVD are ''Organism'', ''9 Variations'', ''Highway'' and ''Longhorn''. The DVD also includes an interview with Harris, which contains the short films ''Generation'' and ''Highway''.

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* 1929 births 1999 deaths American documentary filmmakers Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners {{US-film-director-1920s-stub