Hilary Harris

Hilary Tjader Harris (December 9, 1929 – October 26, 1999) was a documentary filmmaker, one of the pioneers of time-lapse photography. The documentary, Seawards the Great Ships, directed by Harris, won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1962.^[1][2] The Squeeze (1964), a short experimental film about overpopulation won a Golden Gate Award for best fiction at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1964. ^[3]

Filmography

• Longhorn (1951)
• Generation (1956)
• Highway (1958)
• Polaris Action 1960
• Seawards the Great Ships (1961)
• The Dialogues of Archibald Macleish and Mark Van Doren (1962)
• The Walk (1962)
• The Farmer and I (1963)
• Seas of Sweet Water (1964)
• The Squeeze (1964)
• The Draft Card Burners (circa 1965)
• Patterns for Communication (1966)
• 9 Variations on a Dance Theme (1966)
• The Nuer (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.