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Gordon Weisenborn (March 20, 1923 – October 4, 1987) was an American director, producer, writer, and cinematographer specializing in sponsored and educational films. His works express a style that blends naturalism and lyricism with modernist abstraction. [1]
Gordon Weisenborn was born on March 20, 1923. He was raised in Chicago in an artistic household (his father Rudolph was a noted Imagist painter whose WPA murals still hang throughout Chicago, and mother Alfreda/“Fritzi” was art critic for the Chicago Times during World War ll).
Gordon Weisenborn was born on 20 March 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Prime Time (1960), When Asia Speaks (1944) and People Along the Mississippi (1951).
- Director, Producer
- March 20, 1923
- Gordon Weisenborn
- October 4, 1987
Aug 4, 2014 · It was made by Chicago-born Gordon Weisenborn, a prolific director of educational and sponsored films (and creator of a CFA favorite, MURAL MIDWEST METROPOLIS). CFA is lucky to have a handful of Weisenborn titles in our Jack Behrend Collection, including two episodes of the Meetooshow.
Sep 2, 2015 · WATER IS WET Produced by the Erikson Institute for Early Childhood Education and broadcast by Chicago public TV on the cusp of the 1970s, Gordon Weisenborn’s short films document Chicago as...
dir. Gordon Weisenborn, prod. John Barnes & Gordon Weisenborn. Identifier. people_along_the_mississippi. Run time. 20:00. Sound. sound. Year. 1952. As far as we have been able to determine, this film is the first nationally distributed educational film to embrace the interaction of races and cultures in...
Awaken your inner child with Water is Wet from the relatively unknown Chicago documentary pioneer Gordon Weisenborn. Water Is Wet is an astonishing film experiment that visually evokes water to connect children to their feelings, awaken their imaginations and spark their creativity.
