
born
April 4, 1920
Montclair NJ
BS Cornell University 1942, engineering
DKE, kappa beta phi, skull & bones
Lt. US Army Air Force
European theater ordinance
incl. D-day + 33
discharged Major (ret.)
Karl Lieberknect, Alien Properties Custodian
Reading PA
1946 - 1952


leaving a wife, two daughters, five grandchilren, his mother, two sisters, many nieces and nephews, and innumerable other friends and relations, and a son, Bruce.


Since 1973
dba Bayne Wms. Film Co. & MICA
Bruce B. WilliamsBayne Wms FilmMICA Ile Ife Films Arthur Hall Collection 754 Mt Ephraim Rd Searsport ME 04974 (207) 548-2445
| Bruce Williams is a filmmaker, editor and director specializing in dance and arts education. He is the president of Ile Ife Films and the Arthur Hall Collection and the preservation specialist for the Northeast Archive of Folklore and Oral History at U. Maine Orono. Mr. Williams produced the award-winning Snake Dance Teacher Dance, as well as Orisun Omi (The Well) and Arthur Hall's Obatala. Ile Ife Films has 16mm and S-VHS video cameras, as well as a full-track Nagra for location sound and post-production facilities dedicated to dance documentation, preservation and presentation. resume | filmography | awards | media services
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Bruce B. Williams
resume
Professional Experience
Preservation Specialist for the Sandy Ives Preservation Sound Lab at the Northeast Archive of Folklore and Oral History, Univ. of Maine, Orono
equipment includes Bolex, Nagra, SVHS video, 35mm and
two and a quarter still
since 1975
founding member, 1975
Maine Film Alliance, now
Maine Alliance of Media Arts
Maine Student Film and Video Festival, judge 1996
artist in residence program 1975-1983

Honorable Mention
Arthur Hall's Obatala
Dance on Camera Festival, NY 1995
Honor Award for dance education
Snake Dance Teacher Dance
Dance Films Festival, NY 1978
National Endowment for the Arts
Bicentennial State Film Grant 1976
Exeunt
prizewinner
Le Petit Touriste
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1977
prizewinner
Marvel
Yale Film Festival, 1969
Frank Zappa, judge
Seasons of a Craftsman
American Film Festival - Robert Flaherty Seminar
King Kong in a Blanket
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Art
Professor Rudy Burkhart's film curriculum
Since 9/98
2/89-3/94
11/89-5/94
1/89-11/89
3/85-1/89
EducationUCLA, two quarters, television and photography, 1968-1969
Diploma 1966, Rolling Hills (Calif.) High School
1961-1965, Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tenn.
1960-1961, West Chester (Penn.) Joint Junior High School
1955-1960, Demontration School of West Chester State Teacher's College
1952-1955, Caribe School, Ponce, Puerto Rico
PersonalMember

The Tree that Lived Alone
by Aislinn Williams
Letter to my daughter