Person
Jay Leyda
Directing · 1910–1988 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988)[1] was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his collections of documentation on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for

People of the Cumberland
Director

Strong Medicine
1981

A Bronx Morning
Director

Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
Editor
Youth Gets a Break
Editor
Filmography
- 1981Strong Medicine
- 1955Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for StudyEditor
- 1941Youth Gets a BreakEditor
- 1937People of the CumberlandDirector
- 1931A Bronx MorningDirector
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