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Merce Cunningham, Interview about R. Buckminster Fuller

Title
Merce Cunningham, Interview about R. Buckminster Fuller 1992, December.
Publication
1992.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Simon, Kirk
  • Goodman, Karen
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
1 streaming video file (36 min) : sound, color
Summary
An interview with Merce Cunningham conducted for the documentary Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud. He begins by speaking about his first encounters with and initial impressions of Fuller upon meeting him at Black Mountain College during the late 1940s. Building off of this conversation, he speaks about a geodesic dome built by Fuller on the campus (10:40). He then goes on to discuss several anecdotes regarding Fuller over the decades of their association, as well as his takes on Fullers various ideas, projects and precepts (17:00). He follows with a consideration of what made the atmosphere of Black Mountain College special (23:50). After this, we see Cunningham asked questions again which were asked earlier in the interview, to which he gives somewhat different answers, due apparently to the 16mm film on which the interview was originally shot having run out in the midst of several previous answers (26:00).
Alternative Title
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
  • Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud Elements.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Music.
  • Video.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
System Details (note)
  • Streaming video.
Source (note)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Contents
Interview conducted as part of material for apparently unreleased documentary "Phantom Captain: The Life and Work of R. Buckminster Fuller".
Call Number
*MGZIDF 5050
OCLC
950971028
Title
Merce Cunningham, Interview about R. Buckminster Fuller 1992, December.
Production
1992.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Performer
Merce Cunningham, interviewee; Kirk Simon, Karen Goodman, interviewers.
Event
Recorded December, 1992. Merce Cunningham Dance Company Studios, New York City.
System Details
Streaming video.
Original Version
Original format: 1 videocassette (Video8) ; 8mm.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
Simon, Kirk, interviewer.
Goodman, Karen, interviewer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation donor.
Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud Elements.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 5050
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