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Sidney Peterson (November 15, 1905, Oakland, California – April 24, 2000, New York City) was an American author, artist, and avant-garde filmmaker. He attended UC Berkeley, worked as a newspaper reporter in Monterey, and spent time as a practicing painter and sculptor in France in the 1920s and 1930s. After World War II, Peterson founded Workshop 20 at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute), initiating filmmaking courses at the school.〔http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/P/SPeterson_bio.html retrieved 7/5/15〕 Between 1947 and 1950 the workshop produced five films under Peterson's guidance that were influential on the burgeoning American avant-garde cinema, and significant artifacts of the San Francisco Renaissance.〔The New York Times, 4 Experimental Works by Sidney Peterson, Vincent Canby, page 27, 1/23/1975〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/movies/radical-light-alternative-film-in-san-francisco-area.html〕 In the years that followed, Peterson worked as a consultant for the Museum of Modern Art, made a series of documentary films, penned a novel (''A Fly in the Pigment'', 1961) and a memoir (''The Dark of the Screen'', 1980), and worked at Walt Disney Productions as a scriptwriter and storyboard artist on the never completed sequel to ''Fantasia''.〔http://committeewomen/2000/05/08/arts/sidney-peterson-94-surrealist-filmmaker.html retrieved 7/5/15〕 He died in New York City at the age of 94. Peterson's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and The Film Makers Cooperative in New York City.〔http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_author=586 retrieved 7/5/15〕 A 2007 comic strip by Dave Kiersh in Syncopated Volume 3 (''Syncopated Comics'', 2007) tells of his relationship with Peterson, who was a friend of Kiersh's grandmother.〔http://davekiersh.blogspot.com/2007/06/random-dave-k-comic.html retrieved 7/5/15〕〔http://angryjim.com/?tag=syncopated retrieved 7/5/15〕 On December 30, 2009, the Library of Congress named Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes'' (1949) to the National Film Registry.〔http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ retrieved 7/5/15〕〔http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-250.html retrieved 7/5/15〕 ==Selected filmography== *''The Potted Psalm'' (1946) with James Broughton *''Horror Dream'' (1947) *''The Cage'' (1947) *''The Petrified Dog'' (1948) *''Clinic of Stumble'' (1948) *''Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur'' (1949) *''The Lead Shoes'' (1949) *''Architectural Millinery'' (1954) *''Man in a Bubble'' (1981) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sidney Peterson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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