![]() ![]() She was one of America’s first important woman filmmakers, a pioneer in the field of experimental animation who specialized in setting abstract images to music. Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) was born in Houston, Texas, and spent most of her creative life in New York City. In 1965, it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute’s sole feature length film. ![]() Bute and her husband, Ted Nemeth, were longtime collaborators, and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. ![]() The subsequent film maintains the original novel’s oneiric style. Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce’s impenetrable prose without losing any of the work’s surreal, lyrical essence. Mary Ellen Bute’s final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce’s masterfully complex work of fiction, Finnegans Wake. Some pages are folded inward, others are laid in loosely. This script belonged to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Mimeograph duplication, with onionskin revision pages throughout. 148 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Title page present, dated Maand December 3, 1962, noted as Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute, Romana Javitz, and T. ![]() Vintage original film script, 11 x 8.5″ (28 x 22 cm.) Brown untitled wrappers. ![]()
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