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Mary Ellen Bute

Director · 15 credits · 3 in highly-rated films

Best known for Rhythm in Light (1934)

Frequent collaborators: Ted Nemeth

Directed movies (15 total, ranked by score)

  1. Rhythm in Light

    1934 · ★ 6.7 (7 votes)

    1

  2. Spook Sport

    1940 · ★ 5.9 (24 votes)

    Animation, Music, Horror

    2

  3. Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    1937 · ★ 7.1 (8 votes)

    Animation

    3

  4. Synchromy No. 2

    1935 · ★ 7.8 (9 votes)

    Animation

    4

  5. New Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor

    1956

    5

  6. Dada

    1936 · ★ 7.0 (5 votes)

    Animation

    6

  7. Color Rhapsodie

    1948 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)

    Animation

    7

  8. Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

    1967 · ★ 8.2 (6 votes)

    Drama

    8

  9. Mood Contrasts

    1958

    Animation

    9

  10. Polka Graph

    1947

    Animation, Music

    10

  11. Tarantella

    1940 · ★ 5.9 (27 votes)

    Animation, Music

    11

  12. Abstronic

    1952 · ★ 6.6 (8 votes)

    Animation, Music

    12

  13. Parabola

    1937 · ★ 5.8 (16 votes)

    Animation

    13

  14. Pastorale

    1950

    Animation

    14

  15. Synchromy No. 1

    1934

    15

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.