Jerome Hill
Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald... Read full bio →
Film Portrait
The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater part of the 20th century. Through fragments of Hill’s surrealistic, handpainted and documentary films (as well as the James J.
The Canaries
Live-action footage of canaries and beachgoers overlaid with hand-painted effects.
Death in the Forenoon
Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later.
Albert Schweitzer
This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.