Louis Clyde Stoumen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Louis Clyde Stoumen

Film director, Film producer

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1917

Place of Birth: Springtown, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1991

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, film director, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Louis Clyde Stoumen

  • Louis Clyde Stoumen (July 15, 1917 – September 13, 1991), known as Lou Stoumen, was an American photographer, film director and producer.
  • He won two Academy Awards; the first in 1957 for Best Documentary Short Subject (The True Story of the Civil War), and the second in 1963 for Best Documentary Feature (Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler). Stoumen was born in Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died in Sebastopol, California.
  • After graduating from Lehigh University in 1939, he worked as a freelance journalist and photographer in New York.
  • Many of the photographs of Times Square he made were published in the 1985 book Times Square: 45 Years of Photographs.Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School.
  • He spoke of his innovation in The True Story of the Civil War.
  • He invented a track for the camera to move back and forth over historic photos and paintings.
  • It also tracked up and down (in and out).
  • The technique is often referred to today as the "Ken Burns effect".Stoumen received Colin Higgins' master's thesis, a screenplay called Harold and Maude.
  • Stoumen spoke of his enjoyment of the writing, but doubted it would ever be produced.
  • He wasn't unhappy when proven wrong by the film's success. Stouman married Lini De Vries in 1943; the couple divorced in 1949. After his death in 1991, the Stoumen Estate gifted the entire archive of Stoumen's work, including copyright, to the Museum of Photographic Arts.
  • MOPA created a special exhibition and catalog entitled Seduced by Life: The Art of Lou Stoumen in celebration of acquiring the Stoumen Archive.
  • Copyright for Stoumen's work is currently administered by the Museum of Photographic Arts.The Academy Film Archive preserved The True Story of the Civil War and T Is for Tumbleweed by Stoumen.

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