Harry Smith was born on May 29, 1923 in Portland, Oregon, USA as Harry Everett Smith. He was a director and writer, known for Number 3: Interwoven (1946), Number 1 (1939) and Number 2: Message from the Sun (1941). He died on November 26, 1991 in New York City, New York, USA.
Was never sure whether his father was his mother's husband or if it was Aleister Crowley, the famous satanist, whom his mother had been seeing.
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Compiled six-album set "The Anthology of American Folk Music" for Folkways Records, drawing largely on his own record collection, most of which he later sold to the New York Public Library.
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Once owned the world's largest collection of paper airplanes, which he donated to the Smithsonian Air-Space Museum
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Early Abstractions
1987
Short
Mahagonny
1980
Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
1967
Short
Number 15
1966
Number 14: Late Superimpositions
1965
Short
Heaven and Earth Magic
1962
Number 13
1962
Number 10
1956
Short
Number 11: Mirror Animations
1956
Short
Number 8
1954
Number 9
1954
Number 7
1951
Short
Number 6
1950
Short
Number 5: Circular Tensions: Homage to Oskar Fischinger
1949
Short
Number 4: Manteca
1947
Short
Number 3: Interwoven
1946
Short
Number 2: Message from the Sun
1941
Short
Number 1
1939
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
1967
Short
Number 13
1962
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
1967
Short animator
Number 13
1962
animator
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
1967
Short
Number 13
1962
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hymn to Pan Invocation
1987
Short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mahagonny
1980
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mahagonny
1980
producer
Sound Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hymn to Pan Invocation
1987
Short sound
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
Documentary dedicated to the memory of
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Magus
2002
Documentary
Himself
Birth of a Nation
1997
Documentary
Himself
Walden
1969
Documentary
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
$900,000