Seymour STERN

Nationality: American

Seymour Stern (22 Feb 1908 – 22 Jan 1978)
“As a youth, he watched D. W. Griffith film Orphans of the Storm. During 20-30s, Stern was a special advisor to Carl Laemmle at Universal and helped Sergei Eisenstein in U.S. and Mexico. As coeditor of Experimental Cinema, he attempted several experimental productions, only Black Dawn (1934) completed. Later he became Griffith’s “authorized” biographer.” –David Shepard/Bruce Posner


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