{{Short description|American filmmaker (1929–1999)}} '''Hilary Tjader Harris''' (December 9, 1929 &ndash; October 26, 1999) was a documentary filmmaker, one of the pioneers of time-lapse photography. The documentary, ''Seawards the Great Ships'', directed by Harris, won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1962.<ref name="Variety">{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117883462.html?categoryid=25&cs=1|title=Hilary Harris|publisher=Variety|date=2000-01-05|access-date=2008-01-10}}</ref><ref name="Oscars1962">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |title=The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners |work=oscars.org}}</ref> ''The Squeeze'' (1964), a short experimental film about overpopulation won a Golden Gate Award for best fiction at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1964. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Olszynko-Gryn |first=Jesse |last2=Ellis |first2=Patrick |date=2018 |title=Malthus at the Movies: Science, Cinema, and Activism around Z.P.G. and Soylent Green |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26608643 |journal=Journal of Cinema and Media Studies |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=47–69 |doi=10.2307/26608643 |issn=2578-4900}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Longhorn'' (1951) * ''Generation'' (1956) * ''Highway'' (1958) * ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WjEXGm5hx4 Polaris Action 1960]'' * ''Seawards the Great Ships'' (1961) * ''The Dialogues of Archibald Macleish and Mark Van Doren'' (1962) * ''The Walk'' (1962) * ''The Farmer and I'' (1963) * ''Seas of Sweet Water'' (1964) * ''The Squeeze'' (1964) * ''[https://archive.org/details/MotionPicture0084_201809 The Draft Card Burners]'' (circa 1965) * ''Patterns for Communication'' (1966) * ''9 Variations on a Dance Theme'' (1966) * ''The Nuer'' (1970) * ''Organism'' (1975) * ''Technology in Public Service'' (1976) * ''South Street Seaport'' (1976)

== Notes == A DVD, titled The Films of Hilary Harris, was released by Mystic Fire Video in 2006. The four films on the DVD are ''Organism'', ''9 Variations'', ''Highway'' and ''Longhorn''. The DVD also includes an interview with Harris, which contains the short films ''Generation'' and ''Highway''.

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0364772|Hilary Harris}}

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