Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988)[1] was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his collections of documentation on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.
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25 November 1981
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her.
01 December 1937
The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry.
23 May 2026
Famed Russian revolutionary film director Sergei Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in December 1930 to experience firsthand its “geographical, ethnological, cultural and historical diversity” and to make the feature film known to the world as ¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO! After shooting 200,000 feet of 35mm film footage, drawing hundreds of outlandish sketches and writing volumes of theoretical texts, he departed in April 1932 without a completed film.
01 January 1955
"Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great Soviet auteur planned to make an epoch-spanning pageant of Mexico’s political history and cultural iconography, moving from the pre-Columbian era through colonization and, finally, revolution .
01 January 1941
Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.
21 November 1931
Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx.
