Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer.
In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer.
His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1973), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003.
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This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up t...
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A little boy and his sister forced to spend a day at the beach build a sand castle, to the delight a...
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Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later....
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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...
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The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater part o...
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Film Portrait (1972) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 2 | The Canaries (1969) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 3 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) | Self | 8 | |
| 4 | Death in the Forenoon (1966) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 5 | The Sand Castle (1961) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 6 | Albert Schweitzer (1957) | Director / Writer | 4 |
