{{Infobox scientist |birth_name = Steven Alexander Rutt |birth_date = {{birth date|1945|2|26}} |birth_place = New York, New York |death_date = {{death date and age|2011|5|20|1945|2|26}} |death_place = New York, New York |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = video animation, engineer. inventor, motion pictures, television |work_institutions = Rutt Video & Interactive |alma_mater = |spouse = Rebecca L. McGriff (one child, Victoria Mara Rutt) |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |awards = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Steven Alexander Rutt''' (February 26, 1945 – May 20, 2011) was an American engineer who in 1972, along with Bill Etra, co-created an early video animation synthesizer, the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer. His equipment was used in the early pioneering synthesized animation for the 1976 Academy Award winning movie Network.<ref name="washingtonpost.com">[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/arts/steve-rutt-an-inventor-behind-early-video-animation-dies-at-66.html], Steve Rutt, an Inventor Behind Early Video Animation, Dies at 66.</ref>
He was the founder of Rutt Video & Interactive, a Manhattan-based video post-production studio ([http://www.Rutt.com Rutt.com]). There, he mentored and employed numbers of SVA students, alumni and faculty members for over three decades, and provided editing services for many famous musicians and filmmakers.
Steve Rutt was born in Manhattan on Feb. 26, 1945, and spent his childhood in Great Neck, Long Island. He is the father of Victoria Mara Rutt.
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==Death== Rutt died on May 20, 2011, in New York, New York of pancreatic cancer.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|nm0752123}} * [http://www.rutt.com/ Homepage for Rutt Video & Interactive] {{authority control}}
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