Mary Ellen Bute

Here's a very short film about the experimental film animator Mary Ellen Bute (1906–83).  Seems like there's a whole story here that's not really been told very thoroughly.  Her "Synchrony No. 4," with Bach's D-minor organ toccata as its soundtrack, predates the work Oskar Fischinger did with the same music for the opening sequence of Disney's Fantasia:

The same year that Fantasia came out, 1940, Bute was collaborating with the Canadian Norman McLaren on "Spook Sport":

And also in 1940, McLaren did his "Boogie Doodle," with music recorded by the pianist Albert Ammons the previous year ("Boogie Woogie Stomp," from the very first Blue Note Record sessions):

But I digress... (!) Anyway, here's a short online article about Mary Ellen Bute with a filmography.  I was interested to read about her work with Joseph Schillinger.