Willard Van Dyke

Willard Van Dyke

Willard Van Dyke (December 5, 1906 – January 23, 1986) was an American filmmaker, photographer, arts administrator, teacher, and former director of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art. Van Dyke went to the University of California, dropping out for a time to avoid taking an ROTC course. Van Dyke died in January 23, 1986 of a heart attack on his way to Cambridge, Mass., where he was named Laureate Artist in Residence at Harvard. He was 79 years old. Van Dyke is survived by his second wife, the former Barbara Millikin, of New York; a daughter, Alison Van Dyke, of Ithaca, N.Y.; three sons, Peter of New York City; Murray of Santa Fe and Neil of Stowe, Vt., and six grandchildren. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willard Van Dyke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

  • Title: Willard Van Dyke
  • Popularity: 0.8101
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1906-12-05
  • Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
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  • Also Known As: W. Van Dyke
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Willard Van Dyke Movies

  • 1986
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    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8.2 1986 HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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  • 1934
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    Hands

    Hands

    6 1934 HD

    A commercial for the Works Progress Administration. We see hands close up: working, playing, praying, whittling, and strumming. Hands use saws and...

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  • 1947
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    To Hear Your Banjo Play

    To Hear Your Banjo Play

    4.5 1947 HD

    A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

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  • 1953
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    American Frontier

    American Frontier

    1 1953 HD

    A school teacher/wheat farmer is solicited by several oil companies for the rights to drill on his family's farm. After accepting an offer, he...

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  • 1953
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    American Frontier

    American Frontier

    1 1953 HD

    A school teacher/wheat farmer is solicited by several oil companies for the rights to drill on his family's farm. After accepting an offer, he...

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  • 1939
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    The City

    The City

    5.8 1939 HD

    A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

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  • 1940
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    The Children Must Learn

    The Children Must Learn

    1 1940 HD

    Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

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  • 1959
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    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    6.9 1959 HD

    Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

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  • 1950
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    This Charming Couple

    This Charming Couple

    1 1950 HD

    Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative to make...

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  • 1954
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    The Lonely Night

    The Lonely Night

    1 1954 HD

    After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A...

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  • 1954
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    The Lonely Night

    The Lonely Night

    1 1954 HD

    After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A...

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  • 1941
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    Youth Gets a Break

    Youth Gets a Break

    1 1941 HD

    Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

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  • 1940
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    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    8 1940 HD

    A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

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  • 1947
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    To Hear Your Banjo Play

    To Hear Your Banjo Play

    4.5 1947 HD

    A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

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  • 1955
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    The One with White Shanks

    The One with White Shanks

    1 1955 HD

    The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

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  • 1956
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    Mayo florido

    Mayo florido

    1 1956 HD

    An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

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  • 1940
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    Tall Tales

    Tall Tales

    1 1940 HD

    The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

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  • 1960
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    Land of White Alice

    Land of White Alice

    1 1960 HD

    Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

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  • 1939
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    The City

    The City

    5.8 1939 HD

    A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

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  • 1959
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    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    6.9 1959 HD

    Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

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  • 1944
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    Steel Town

    Steel Town

    1 1944 HD

    Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process,...

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  • 1940
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    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    8 1940 HD

    A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

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  • 1947
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    Journey Into Medicine

    Journey Into Medicine

    5.5 1947 HD

    A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in...

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  • 1948
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    The Photographer

    The Photographer

    9 1948 HD

    1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

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  • 1948
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    The Photographer

    The Photographer

    9 1948 HD

    1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

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  • 1938
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    The River

    The River

    5.7 1938 HD

    This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

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  • 1937
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    The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America

    The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America

    1 1937 HD

    “Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under...

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  • 1970
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    The Year's Work

    The Year's Work

    1 1970 HD

    Annual report to stockholders highlighting General Mills’s accomplishments of the past year.

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  • 1970
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    1 1970 HD

    Internationalist film exploring the economic and political importance of Latin America to the United States. A document of the “Good Neighbor...

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  • 1970
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    1 1970 HD

    Internationalist film exploring the economic and political importance of Latin America to the United States. A document of the “Good Neighbor...

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  • 1963
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    The American Negro

    The American Negro

    1 1963 HD

    "This unfinished civil rights-era film details how segregation affects the daily lives of African Americans, and includes portions of interviews with...

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