Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Merce
2. Simon, Kirk
3. Goodman, Karen
4. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (36 min) : sound, color

Summary

1. 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

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
2. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud Elements.

Subject

1. Nonfiction films
2. Interviews
3. Video
4. Music
5. Dance
6. Technology
7. Design
8. Architecture
9. Cunningham, Merce > Interviews
10. Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Music.
3. Video.
4. Interviews.
5. Nonfiction films.

Contents

1. Interview conducted as part of material for apparently unreleased documentary "Phantom Captain: The Life and Work of R. Buckminster Fuller".

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 5050

Note

1. Title provided by cataloger, based on original container label

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

System details (note)

1. Streaming video.

Source (note)

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Title

1. Merce Cunningham, Interview about R. Buckminster Fuller 1992, December.

Production

1. 1992.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Performer

1. Merce Cunningham, interviewee; Kirk Simon, Karen Goodman, interviewers.

Event

1. Recorded December, 1992. Merce Cunningham Dance Company Studios, New York City.

System details

1. Streaming video.

Original version

1. Original format: 1 videocassette (Video8) ; 8mm.

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Source

1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
2. Simon, Kirk, interviewer.
3. Goodman, Karen, interviewer.
4. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.

Added title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Moving image materials.
2. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud Elements.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 5050