Miriam Bucher

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Miriam Bell Bucher (1912- 2002) was a pioneering 20th-century female writer, editor, and director of documentary and educational films primarily based on international topics. [1]

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Early in her career, Miriam Bell was a film critic at the Miami Daily News. [2] She then worked as an assistant to Pare Lorentz, well-known documentary director of films such as The Plow that Broke the Plains. Together with her husband, filmmaker Jules Bucher, whom she married in 1940, she worked with the Motion Picture Division of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, producing numerous films about South America, often collaborating with filmmaker Julien Bryan. [3] With the Simmel-Meservey company, she was involved in several short instructional films.

She and her husband lived and worked in Burma, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines in the 1950s and 1960s, making films, often working on projects for the US Information Agency and the US Agency for International Developmen t. With Louis de Rochemont Productions, she went to Burma in the early 1950s to help establish the film industry there, serving as writer-editor memebr of the team and also assistant manager. [4] The film Doh Pyi Daung Su (Our Burma), for which she wrote the screenplay, was screened at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition. [5] While living in Indonesia in the 1950s, she was involved with setting up the Indonesian film industry, as well as advising the South Vietnam film industry in the 1960s. [6] [7] In India, she worked for a private film production company called Art Films of Asia based in Bombay (Mumbai) that produced several documentary films on life, culture, and economy in post-Independence India. [8] She later worked with Airlie Productions and Population Communication Services at Johns Hopkins University on films relating to population, reproductive health, and family planning.

Filmography

Personal life

Miriam Bell was born in Indiana in 1912 and attended Butler University. She married Jules Bucher in 1940. They had one son, Van Dyck Bucher. [11] Jules Bucher was also a documentary filmmaker and the two often collaborated.

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References

  1. ↑ https://miap.hosting.nyu.edu/program/student_work/2015spring/15S_3490_McDowell_Thesis_y.pdf Blake McDowell, M.A. Thesis NYU 2015, Jules V. D. and Miriam Bucher
  2. ↑ Golden, Eve (2023-09-19). Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN   978-0-8131-9810-1.
  3. ↑ Loy, Jane M. (1977). "The Present as Past: Assessing the Value of Julien Bryan's Films as Historical Evidence". Latin American Research Review. 12 (3): 103–128. doi: 10.1017/s0023879100030478 . ISSN   0023-8791. S2CID   141469605.
  4. ↑ Burma. 1952. p. 12.
  5. ↑ "DOH PYI DAUNG SU". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  6. ↑ Lee, Sangjoon (2020). Cinema and the cultural Cold War: US diplomacy and the origins of the Asian cinema network. The United States in the world. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-1-5017-5231-5.
  7. ↑ "films in Vietnam". Film Comment. 5 (2): 46–80. 1969. ISSN   0015-119X. JSTOR   43754304.
  8. ↑ "Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute". collections-search.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  9. ↑ U.S. Information Agency (1956), A House, a Wife, a Singing Bird , retrieved 2023-10-13PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  10. ↑ "Indian Sisters: A History of Nursing and the State, 1907–2007". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  11. ↑ "Jules Dyck Van Bucher '28". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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