Films about or with Steinberg

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• 1952

  Coast to Coast, a Monitor Film from BBC-TV. Director: Ann Turner, Film Editor: Allan Tyrer, Animations; BBC Restrum Camera Unit. Steinberg drawings set to music. A copy is among his papers at the Beinecke Library, Box 636, though there misdated 1959.

• 1955

  Jell-o Instant Pudding, Busy Day commercial. Drawings by Steinberg. Made by Young & Rubicam by Gene Deitch. See “You Are Now Entering Deitchworld,” interview with Gene Deitch by Gary Groth, The Comics Journal, no. 292 (October 2008), pp. 40-41

• c. 1956

  Peter Kassovitz, Steinberg, Service de la Recherche de la RTF (Radiodiffusion-télévision française)
  https://fresques.ina.fr/artsonores/fiche-media/InaGrm00815/peter-kassovitz-steinberg.html The date given, 1965, is the first broadcast date. But the latest drawings in the film are from the 1956 Gallimard compilation of Steinberg drawings, Dessins.

• 1960

  The Stamp of Steinberg, aired on CBS-TV as part of its experimental Camera Three series; a screening at the Museum of Modern Art followed in April 1963 as part of the museum’s Television U.S.A.: Thirteen Seasons series; see https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/3099/releases/MOMA_1963_0011_10.pdf
  A copy exists in the Museum of Modern Art Film Library.
  According to Television U.S.A.: 13 Seasons, The Museum of Modern Art Film Library (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), p. 35, “Steinberg drawings need no captions….No musical score seemed appropriate. It was Mr. Steinberg’s suggestion that the best solution might be a continuous flow of meaningless talk—such as the reading of abstruse legal documents in a foreign accent. This verbal static with passages of equally meaningless sound effects was used to provide the comfort of continuous sound so that the mind of the viewer might be free to study the drawings.”

• 1967

  Sergio Zavoli, Incontro con Saul Steinberg (Incontri–Saul Steinberg: L’essenza totemica), in the series Diario di un Cronista, RAI.

  Shot in New York at Steinberg’s Washington Square Village apartment. The voice is not Steinberg’s. Because of an audio dysfunction during filming, the voices of Steinberg and Zavoli had to be dubbed by others.

• 1966

  Steinberg ou l’humour américain. Gaumont, La Revue du monde, 1966, 6633GJ 00007. It shows Steinberg at work on the 1966 collage-mural Art Viewers, part of his exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, followed by viewers at the exhibition; then a sequence of Steinberg making a drawing of a hand drawing, of a faux document, a label collage, and putting masks on a woman.
  https://gparchives.com/index.php?urlaction=doc&tab=showExtraits&id_doc=218006&rang=1&id_panier=197522

• 1967

  Pour le plasir. A film catalogued under this title and date by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, CPF86649483, which has a copy. It shows Steinberg among the crowd at the opening of his 1966 exhibiton at the Galerie Maeght, followed by viewers at the exhibition; then a sequence of Steinberg making a drawing of a hand drawing, of a faux document, a label collage, and putting masks on a woman. Some of the segments in this sequence seem identical to those in the Gaumont film.

• 1968

  Rolf Karrer-Kharberg, Das Maskenhafte an Saul Steinberg: Bericht aus der Welt eines groβen Zeichner, Süddeutschen Rundfunk, 1968.
  Steinberg speaks in English, Karrer-Kharberg in German. Filmed at Steinberg’s Amagansett house. A copy is among Steinberg’s papers at the Beinecke Library, box 639, there dated 1969, which may be the air date.

• 1968

  Take 30 in New York, interview with Adrienne Clarkson, Canadian Broadcasting Company, aired January 1968. A copy is among Steinberg’s papers at the Beinecke Library, box 638.

• 1971

  Exposition Steinberg: Extrait, interview with Pierre Dumayet in conjunction with Steinberg’s 1971 exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris. A copy is at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, CAF93022332.

• 1973

  Valerio Adami and Saul Steinberg, Du côté de chez les Maeght, 1973. In conjunction with Steinberg’s 1973 exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris. The interview with him is in the second half of the film and includes Drawing Table Reliefs, which were part of the exhibition.
  https://madelen.ina.fr/content/adami-steinberg-80504

• 2021

  Saul Steinberg: Maître des illusions, France-TV Arts. In conjunction with the exhibition Saul Steinberg: Entre les lignes at the Centre Pompidou, 2021.

• 2022

  Saul Steinberg: A Writer Who Draws, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Narrated by Robert Evren, curator. In conjunction with Steinberg’s exhibition of the same name at the museum.

• 2023

  Arne Glimcher on Saul Steinberg. In conjunction with Steinberg’s exhibition at the Pace Gallery, Seoul.

  
  and https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/saul-steinberg-seoul/