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Most famous for his Anthology of American Folk Music, issued by Folkways in 1952, Harry Smith also pioneered abstract animation, attempting to fuse color, motion and sound. His first films were created specifically to be shown in San Francisco jazz clubs.

Entirely self taught, Smith later used the same stop motion collage technique explored by Portland avant garde filmmaker Jim Blashfield.

Harry Smith, a truly unclassifiable American genius, was born in Portland in 1923.

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