US (1960): Short
Characterized by director Shirley Clarke as "A musical comedy about the building of a skyscraper." The dazzling images of 666 Fifth Avenue being built from the ground up are set to a jazzy score of beat-style poems and songs and blended with the voices of actors playing construction workers, in this unique and wonderfully funny document. Magnificently capturing the speed and spirit of New York City, its inhabitants and its structures, Clarke transforms the meaning of industrial documentary and reveals the collaborative process in making of Skyscraper. (Frameworks Archive)
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· Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects) 1959: Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke & Irving Jacoby, producers
