Filmmaker: Ralph Steiner

Ralph Steiner

Gender:

Male

Awards/Recognition:

Photoplay Amateur Movie Contest, 1929 - Non-Dramatic, First Place
Surf and Seaweed, H2O, and Mechanical Principles are included in the Unseen Cinema Project - DVD Box Set.

Films:

H2O (1928)

• Video: via Internet Archive

Surf and Seaweed (1930)

• Video: Low resolution upload available on YouTube via Acce Pointtopoint

Mechanical Principles (1930)

• Video: YouTube video courtesy Anthology Film Archives

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Profession:

Photographer

Biographical Notes:

From New York City, New York, and was a graduate of Dartmouth. H2O was his first ever film.

Bibliographic Resources:

Photoplay, Nov. 1929, 67.
Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960. University of California Press, 2014.
MoMA artist entry.