Hilary Harris
American filmmaker (1929–1999)
Hilary Tjader Harris 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. 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.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 7 films (1959–1975) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 3 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▲ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19-- | 9 variations on a dance theme | a film by Hilary Harris. | 14 | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1959 | HIGHWAY | Hilary Harris | 6 min | 16mm | Color | Sound |
| 1961 | Seawards The Great Ships | British Information Serv Film And Publication Division | 29 min | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1964 | The Squeeze | Hilary Harris Films Inc | 375 | 16mm | sound | |
| 1969 | Generation | Hilary Harris Films Inc | 104 | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1971 | The Nuer | $h [(motion picture] / produced by Robert Gardner & Hilary Harris for the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University ; a film by Hilary Harris and George Breidenbach. | 73 | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1975 | Organism | Hilary Harris Films Inc | 16mm | sound |