Jay Leyda

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Jay Leyda


Born
in Detroit, The United States
February 12, 1910

Died
February 15, 1988


Jay Leyda was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet and Chinese Cinema. His The Melville Log (1951) was a day to day compilation of documents which he had painstakingly collected on the life of Herman Melville. He was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League in the early 1930s. He participated in the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935–37).[1] In the 1940s he translated Eisenstein's writings.
He was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1984.
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Kino: A History of the Russ...

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The Melville Log: A Documen...

4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions
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The Years and Hours of Emil...

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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Films beget films ;: A stud...

4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions
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Eisenstein at Work

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Eisenstein on Disney

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Dianying-Electric Shadows: ...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions
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Leyda Musorgsky Rdr

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions
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Eisenstein: Three Films - B...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974
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Kino: History of the Russia...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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