Christopher Walken's FIRST movie role!

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1. Cute kid with promise! And Mary Ellen Bute was

an important experimental filmmaker, despite the silliness of this short narrative.

Mary Ellen Bute (November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983) was a pioneer American film animator, producer, and director. She is significant as one of the first female experimental filmmakers, and was the creator of the first electronically generated film image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Bute

"A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s to the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saens or Shostakovich, and filled with colorful forms, elegant design and sprightly, dance-like-rhythms, Bute's filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. In the late 1940s, Lewis Jacobs observed that Bute's films were 'composed upon mathematical formulae depicting in ever-changing lights and shadows, growing lines and forms, deepening colors and tones, the tumbling, racing impressions evoked by the musical accompaniment.' Bute herself wrote that she sought to 'bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding along with the thematic development and rhythmic cadences of music.'" - Ed Halter
"Infatuated with the new non-objective paintings of Kandinsky and others, Texas debutante Bute devoted twenty years (1932-1952) to creating thirteen abstract motion pictures in black-and-white and color, with familiar classical music accompaniments. Many were shown at New York’s Radio City Music Hall." - Cecile Starr

https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-1441-mary-ellen-bute