If Walter Ruttman had not been killed while making a newsreel on the frontlines of World War II, the history of film might have turned out differently. He made breathtakingly beautiful movies -- both animated and shot --that radically departed from the traditional narratives of contemporaries like Ch
A World War I flying ace, a piano-factory worker who earned a degree in medicine, a published anthropologist, a scenarist with Hungarian silents, and most notably, a Hollywood filmmaker for Universal Studios, Paul Fejos appears in film histories as a short footnote. He's remembered, and occasional