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Maysles, Albert

LC control no.n 94802592
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingMaysles, Albert
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Variant(s)Maysles, Al
Maysles, Aobert
Meisuosi, A'erbote
See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Maysles Films
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LocatedBrookline (Mass.)
Birth date1926-11-26
Death date2015-03-05
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityDocumentary films Documentary television programs
Documentary films--Production and direction Documentary television programs--Production and direction Cinematography
Profession or occupationMotion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors Cinematographers
Found inAbortion, desperate choices, c1992: credit frame (Albert Maysles)
Jing dian ji lu [VR], 2002?: container (A'erbote Meisuosi; Aobert Maysles; b. 1926; filmed Salesman, etc.)
IMDb WWW site, May 21, 2008 (Albert Maysles; b. Brookline, Mass, USA, 26 Nov. 1926; alt. name: Al Maysles; filmed Salesman, Abortion: desperate choices, etc.)
New York times (online), viewed Mar. 6, 2015 (Albert Maysles; b. Albert H. Maysles, Nov. 26, 1926, Boston; grew up in Brookline; d. Thursday night [Mar. 5, 2015], Manhattan, aged 88; award-winning documentarian who, with his brother, David, made intensely talked-about films, including Grey Gardens and Gimme shelter)
Maysles Films, Inc. (online), viewed on September 16, 2020: history (one of the early creators of direct cinema along with brother David)
   <http://mayslesfilms.com/history/>
New York times, March 6, 2015 (online), viewed on September 16, 2020: movies, article "Albert Maysles, pioneering documentarian, dies at 88" (the Maysles brothers established Maysles Films in 1962)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html>
IMDb (online), viewed on September 17, 2020: biography (birth name: Albert Harry Maysles) filmography (chiefly credited as cinematographer and director of film and television documentaries and some video documentaries; active as cinematographer and director since 1955)
   <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563099/>
Associated languageeng
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