Louis Clyde Stoumen

Louis Clyde Stoumen - also Louis Stouman , Lou Stoumen - (born July 15, 1917 in Springtown , Pennsylvania , † September 20, 1991 in Sonoma County , California ) was an American director , film producer , screenwriter and documentary filmmaker who worked twice was awarded an Oscar .

Life

Stoumen has taught film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The topic of his lessons was, among other things, dealing with the Civil War and its true history. He also shot the Oscar-winning short documentary film The True Story of the Civil War (1957) on this subject .

Stoumen first appeared in 1951 in the Ida Lupino film Outrage , in which he stood behind the camera with Archie Stout . In 1955, Stoumen wrote the screenplay for The Blond Dog for the television series General Electric Theater . In 1957 he was nominated for an Oscar in two categories, in addition to the Oscar-winning category “Best Documentary Short Film” and the “Best Documentary Film” category, where his film The Naked Eye failed to prevail. At the 1963 Academy Awards , he was able to win the “Best Documentary” category again with his work Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler . His last film work dates from 1964, where he deals with the British statesman in the documentary The Other World of Winston Churchill .

The technique developed by Ken Burns and known today as the Ken Burns Effect is based on Stoumen's invention , using slow panning and zooming effects (pan and zooming) and cross-fading to make a video or a slide show from still images.

After Stoumen's death in 1991, the copyright to all of his works was transferred to the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego . MOPA created a catalog of his works entitled Seduced by Life: The Art of Lou Stoumen ( Seduced by life: The Art of Lou Stoumen ) and initiated a special exhibition.

Awards

• In 1957 Stoumen was awarded an Oscar in the category “Best Documentary (Short)” for The True Story of the Civil War .
• He was also nominated for an Oscar in 1957 in the category “Best Documentary” with The Naked Eye , but could not prevail against Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his film The Silent World .
• In 1963 , Stoumen again received an Oscar in the category of best documentary , this time for his work Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler . Marlene Dietrich spoke the text accompanying the film .

Filmography (selection)

• 1950: Outrage (camera)
• 1951: The last Five ( Five ) (camera)
• 1952: The winner ( The Quiet Man ) (camera)
• 1953: The Baltimore Plan (documentary) (camera)
• 1955: General Electric Theater (TV series, episode The Blond Dog ) (screenplay)
• 1956: The Naked Eye (documentary) (director, screenplay and editor)
• 1957: The James Dean Story (documentary) (camera and production designer)
• 1957: The True Story of the Civil War (short documentary film) (Director, Producer, and Screenplay)
• 1958: T Is for Tumbleweed (short film) (director and editor)
• 1959: In the Kusong Kettle ( Operation Dames ) (director and editor)
• 1960: Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (documentary within a series) (producer)
• 1962: Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (Director, Producer and Screenplay)
• 1964: The Other World of Winston Churchill (documentary) (director and producer)

Books

• Louis Clyde Stoumen: Can't Argue with Sunrise: a Paper Movie. Publisher: Celestial Arts, Millbrae, Calif. 1975, ISBN 978-0-89-0870525
• Ordinary Miracles: The Photography of Louis Stoumen , photographs collected between 1932 and 1980 in New York City, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, and New Mexico, includes portraits and landscapes

Web links

• Louis Clyde Stoumen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Louis Clyde Stoumen at whtime.cloudapp.net ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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1. ↑ Louis Clyde Stoumen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Louis Clyde Stoumen ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ovguide.com. Retrieved February 6, 2014. 
3. ^ Can't Argue with Sunrise - Lou Stoumen and Ordinary Miracles