in collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth. Synchromy No. 2 – 1935 (b&w, 5.5 min.) music: Evening Star from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner. Dada – 1936 (b&w, 3min.) short for Universal Newsreel. Parabola – 1937 (b&w, 9 min.) music: Création du monde by Darius Milhaud. Synchromy No.4 - Escape – 1937 (color, 4.5 min.) music: Toccata in D Minor by J.S. Bach. Spook Sport – 1939 (color, 8 min.) music: Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. Animation by Norman McLaren. Tarantella – 1940 (color, 5 min.) Polka Graph – 1947 (color, 4.5 min.) music: Dmitri Shostakovich's Polka from The Age of Gold. Color Rhapsodie – 1948 (color, 6 min.) Pastorale – 1950 (color, 9 min.) music: Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze. Abstronic – 1952 (color, 7 min.) music: Aaron Copland's Hoe Down and Don Gillis's Ranch House Party. Mood Contrasts – 1953 (color, 7 min.) Imagination – 1957 (color) compilation background for musical sequence, Steve Allen Show (November 17, 1957) The Boy Who Saw Through – 1958 (b&w, 25 min.) (producer) stars a young Christopher Walken [not abstract]. New Sensations in Sound – @1959 (color, 3 min.) advertising film for RCA. Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake – 1965–67 (b&w, 97 min.) (director and co-writer) screened at the Cannes Film Festival [not abstract]. References External links Mary Ellen Bute Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Cecile Starr Papers Relating to Mary Ellen Bute. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1906 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American women artists American experimental filmmakers American women film directors American women film producers American animated film directors American animated film producers Cinema pioneers Visual music artists American women animators Women experimental filmmakers Animators from New York (state) People from Houston