Morrison-Shearer Collection
![[Morrison-Shearer_collection_still]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/8/65704_ca_object_representations_media_1817_large.jpg)
- Photograph courtesy of the Morrison-Shearer Foundation © Morrison-Shearer Foundation, Northbrook, IL.
Inclusive Dates
1936 – 1997
Preservation Sponsor
Abstract
The Morrison-Shearer collection is an extensive collection of dance films, most of which were shot by Helen Balfour Morrison. Sybil Shearer and Jerry Lev, a Shearer Company dancer, shot a small number of the films. Most films were shot in Northbrook, IL at Shearer’s dance studio and the surrounding environs that include the neighboring golf course, Green Acres Country Club. Some of the 8mm films were shot in New York City. The collection features solo performances by Sybil Shearer, Shearer with her dance company, interviews with Sybil Shearer and some rehearsal footage.
Series In this Collection
Collection Items
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine [Trio Version 2]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/6/36514_ca_object_representations_media_2650_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine [Trio Version 1]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/6/32497_ca_object_representations_media_2649_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, Unfinished]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/15478_ca_object_representations_media_1639_large.jpg)
![Mysterium Tremendum [incomplete]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/6/87134_ca_object_representations_media_2663_large.jpg)
![Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/6/75514_ca_object_representations_media_2657_large.jpg)
![Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/5/59108_ca_object_representations_media_2546_large.jpg)
![Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/5/20395_ca_object_representations_media_2545_large.jpg)
![Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [silent excerpts]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/5/77604_ca_object_representations_media_2543_large.jpg)
![Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff [incomplete]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/5/83030_ca_object_representations_media_2540_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/38014_ca_object_representations_media_2104_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/91482_ca_object_representations_media_2105_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/82399_ca_object_representations_media_2106_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/32492_ca_object_representations_media_2107_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/10869_ca_object_representations_media_2108_large.jpg)
![Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/68573_ca_object_representations_media_2109_large.jpg)
![In a Vacuum [incomplete]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/0/22487_ca_object_representations_media_2098_large.jpg)
![In a Vacuum [incomplete]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/0/19546_ca_object_representations_media_2099_large.jpg)
![In a Vacuum [outtake]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/56116_ca_object_representations_media_1631_large.jpg)
![In a Vacuum [incomplete]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/80161_ca_object_representations_media_1629_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1961, 3rd Movement]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/72543_ca_object_representations_media_1635_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1961, 3 Movements]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/88711_ca_object_representations_media_1633_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/3343_ca_object_representations_media_1636_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [2nd Movement]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/88538_ca_object_representations_media_1634_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Sybil Solo]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/90228_ca_object_representations_media_1637_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1983, in Costume]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/32705_ca_object_representations_media_1638_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Trio Lyric with Sybil, Masad & Toby]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/27265_ca_object_representations_media_1640_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The ["Up to Unison" & "Raising Arms" in Color]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/34270_ca_object_representations_media_1641_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, 5-Pieces 1]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/87964_ca_object_representations_media_1642_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, 5-Pieces 2]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/62859_ca_object_representations_media_1643_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Incomplete Color Test with Sound]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/30817_ca_object_representations_media_1644_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Incomplete Color Test]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/9597_ca_object_representations_media_1645_large.jpg)
![Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [“Up to Unison” & “Raising Arms” in B&W]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/6/50734_ca_object_representations_media_1646_large.jpg)
To request more information about the items in this collection, please contact the archive at
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Items with Viewable Media
- 1-reel Within This Thicket
- [ 1-Roll - Untitled Dances - Schubert / Debussy / Rachmaninoff / Ravel / Moussorgsky]
- 1st Solo - Studio Improvisation
- 2-reels-The Tree/Early Northbrook
- 3-rolls - Christmas Wish/Salute to Old Friends/Mysterium Tremendium
- #14109
- 14109
- Act 3 - Paris
- Agnes de Mille
- Agnes de Mille
- Agnes de Mille
- Alborada del gracioso Ravel
- Alborada del gracioso Ravel
- Alec Wilder Quintet;Berlioz (Audio)
- Ann Halperin
- Arts Club Harry Bouris (Audio)
- AT&T Bell Telephone Hom-Film (Audio)
- [B&W Leader]
- "Bach" (Audio)
- Bading Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto (Audio)
- "Badinos Genesis" (Audio)
- "Ballet Music?" (Audio)
- Ballet Theater Rehearsal Ravinia
- Ballyward #2; Interview, Jean Duffy (Audio)
- Bartok (Audio)
- Bartok 1st
- Bartok 1st
- Bartok--1st mov.-Masad and Juanita
- "Bartok 4" (Audio)
- Bartok 4 (Audio)
- Bartok 4 (Audio)
- Bartok 4 Chase / Crumb (Audio)
- Bartok 4 Quartet (Audio)
- ""Bartok 4th" (Audio)
- Bartok 6
- Bartok 6 (Audio)
- "Bartok 6th Full Track" (Audio)
- "Bartok" "Cunningham" (Audio)
- Bartok IV 77 Fast Dance
- Bartok IV 77 Fast Dance 2-Last Mov., 1st Part
- Bartok Quartet Choreography Tests (?)
- Bartok Quartet Choreography Tests
- Bartok Sixth (Extras)
- Bears Out of Doors--Sue and Mary, Jerry and Susie
- Beethoven
- Beethoven- Beginning Across Masau and Dick Together
- Beethoven Hammer Clavier; Ashkenazi (Audio)
- "Beethoven-Handel-Bach" [Multiple Titles and Composers on Reel] (Audio)
- Beethoven- Second Half Slow
- Bell Telephone Hour-Spanish Lady (Audio)
- "Bell Telephoone Hour Chicago Symphony Orchestra- Bartok Mandarian" (Audio)
- Ben Johnson (Audio)
- Ben Johnson-City (Audio)
- "Ben Johnson Master (cut 1 only)" "Nine Variations" (Audio)
- Ben Johnston Quartet (Audio)
- Benny Goodman I Cried for You (Audio)
- "Bichet- Second Record" (Audio)
- "Binistera Mozart Brahms" (Audio)
- "Bizet's Childrens Games" "Prokofiev Summer Day" (Audio)
- "Black Wings" (Audio)
- Blue Forsome
- Blue Skirt
- Blue Skirt
- Bob
- Bois Toby Chris Sue DJ 3 Understudies
- Bonifer's [Blues]
- Bowl
- Brahms Sonata (Audio)
- Bridge in Three Dances
- "Brittain C. of C." (Audio)
- "Brittain C. of C." (Audio)
- Brittain O (Act 2)
- Brittain O Part 2 Mysterium Tremendum, Harp Solo
- "Brittain Triwling"
- "Broadway" "Rosie" "Love You" "Levie" "Claif" "Drop of Water" "Rockabye" "Brubeck" "Christmas" (Audio)
- Brubeck Stompin’ for Mili
- Brueghel (overtimed) - Folk Dancer
- Brueghel- Reversed (Sybil, John Neumeier, Nan Buck)
- Bugs 79
- Bugs 79 - Kevin
- Building the House
- "Cage-Chichetti" (Audio)
- "Campbel" (Audio)
- Campbell Bach (Audio)
- Campbell Copies (Audio)
- Can-Can Marla; Class Portabras, Pirouette
- Can-Can Paris
- Carlos Chavez Percussion
- Carnegie Hall Solos (Audio)
- Carol - After 2 M.O.
- Carter-Drums-WFNT (Audio)
- "Carter WFMT Harpsichord and P. Con." (Audio)
- "Castglioni- Flame" (Audio)
- "Castiglioni- Spark" "Schuler- Opinions" (Audio)
- "Ceremony of Carols" (Audio)
- "Chavez 3 parts" (Audio)
- Chavez AT&T [Telephone Show Trims]
- Chavez; Emensor (Audio)
- Chavez First Half
- Chavez Schuler last 2 pieces (Audio)
- Chavez Second Roll
- Chavez Susan
- Chavez-Sybil
- Chow Wen Chun - Paul Bowles - Copeland Dance Burlesque - Bartok Portrait (Audio)
- Class
- Class
- Class
- Class
- Class - 2nd Grade
- Class and Masad
- Class and SS
- Class and Toby, PJ and Barb-Circus Stage
- Class – Julie and Carol
- Class-National-Bit
- Class-Pirouette-Assemble Chasse-Sisou turning-Pas de Bourke, etc., Barre
- Class-Portabras Understudies Company Warmup, Studio
- Class - Studio - Lee
- Claudia Cassidy (Audio)
- Claudia Cassidy - last two broadcasts (Audio)
- "Close the Door" (Audio)
- Company Class
- Concerto 2 Pianos-Paul Bowles (Audio)
- Contrast, 1st mov. Complete
- Contrast, 1st mov. Complete
- Contrasts-Vida and Jerry; End, Jerry, Mary, Vida, Debbie
- Conversations with Ann Barzel
- Conversations with Ann Barzel .P.W. Manchester & John Martin; 16mm B&W Orig/Mag tfr.
- Conversations with Anne Barzel P.W. Manchester & John Martin SAFETY MASTER
- Conversations with Louis Horst
- Corelli Pastoral Out of Doors - Red Short [Tune]
- Corporia
- [Credits and Title Cards]
- Cuckoos (Audio)
- Dancing Around [?]
- Dancing Around [?]
- Dancing In Studio East Side - End Green Tights
- Danny Nagrin, Elizabeth Waters, A. A. Leath, Ann Halprin
- David Szabo Reel Sybil Shearer Dance Tape 3 dancers
- Dead Wood Cannot Be Used for Building
- Debbie
- Debbie
- Debbie
- Debbie Smith After Illinois
- Debbie Smith After Illinois
- "Debussy" (Audio)
- Degas Stage 1
- Degas – Stage #2
- Degas – Stage 3
- Degas – Studies P.J. Barb Sue
- Degas-TJ Themel-3 girls
- Dinglehorse Dance
- Door; deadwood Bold and Wings (Audio)
- Early Northbrook
- Early Northbrook
- Early Northbrook
- Early Northbrook
- Early Northbrook
- Early Northbrook - First
- Early Northbrook - First
- Early Northbrook - First
- Early Northbrook - First
- Early Northbrook - First
- "Early Northbrook - First" Safety Master
- Early Northbrook - First / Transfer
- Early Northbrook - Jean D'Arc
- Early Northbrook - Jean D'Arc
- Early Northbrook - Jean D'Arc
- Early Northbrook - Jean D'Arc [Duplicate]
- Early Northbrook: Jeanne D'Arc
- Early Northbrook - Jeanne d'Arc Safety Master
- Early Solos
- Early Solos
- Early Solos
- Early Solos
- Early Solos
- Echo
- Echo (1st version)
- "Elliott Carter- Eight Atudes and a Fantasy for Woodwind Quartet (1950)" "New York Woodwind Quartet -1" (Audio)
- "Emerald" (Audio)
- [Empty] (Audio)
- [Eraser]
- Eternity '79
- Eternity '79
- Eternity II (Picture)
- Evanston Symphony-Reigger-New Dance (Audio)
- Facets & Aspects - 3 Parts Stravinsky
- [Factory Sealed Eastman Kodak Plus-X Reversal Film]
- [Factory Sealed Eastman Kodak Plus-X Reversal Film]
- Fall of the Leaf (Audio)
- "Finney Riegger and Memin" (Audio)
- First Dance – Seven Images
- First Group Segment Chavez ATT
- Five Early Solos
- Five Early Solos
- Five Early Solos
- Five Early Solos
- Five Early Solos
- Five Early Solos (2023 Preservation Print)
- Five Early Solos: Answer Print
- Five Early Solos: Color Internegative
- Five Early Solos: Negative Optical Track
- For Miss French from Sybil Shearer
- Forward Co A.T.T.
- Forward Co A.T.T.
- Forward Co A.T.T.
- Forward Co A.T.T.
- Forward Co A.T.T. (Marla)
- Francais Divertissement For Oboe Clarinet and Bassoon Prelude and Allegretto Assai
- [FRD 3]
- Fritz Faulkner
- From Jimmy: Concert Tapes (Audio)
- From Jimmy Concert Tapes copy (Audio)
- Frome in Color
- Genonshe
- "Gibson #1" (Audio)
- Gillespie
- [Gillespie Scraps]
- "Gold" (Audio)
- "Gollywog's Cakewalk" "Last Rietti" "Bartok 4th Quartet" "Jolsen" (Audio)
- Goodman J. Bichet (Film) (Audio)
- Goodme Ratea (Audio)
- Grade 1 Cecchetti System (Audio)
- The Great Day 1979
- Great Day, The
- [Green Plaid Overalls with Red Shirt]
- Group Henniger ?
- Group Meeting / Group Meeting (Audio)
- H.C. & Ext (Roll 2)
- "Hall, Mary Fidelia" (Audio)
- Handel (Audio)
- "Handel-Corelli-Bach" [Multiple Titles and Composers on Reel" (Audio)
- "Handel- National" (Audio)
- Harpsichord: Modern Masterworks From France (Audio)
- "Haydn" "Arnold" (Audio)
- "Haydn Oboe Concerto" (Audio)
- [Helen Heineman]
- Helen Heineman
- Helen Heineman
- Helen Heineman
- Henry Jaffe (Reel 2)
- History Program (Audio)
- Homer, Juanita Tendril
- Homer-Paris-Barb, Nancy, Carol and Holtz
- Homer-Paris-Carol-Barre-After 2 M.O
- I Thought I Heard Them Say; Without Wings the Way is Steep
- [Illegible] Bob's
- [Illegible] Bob's
- [Illegible] Brueghel
- "[illegible] Lee Finney" "Weiss" "Brahms Cello and Piano" (Audio)
- [Illegible] Prayer
- Images: Schubert, Scarlatti, Sketches
- Images: Schubert, Scarlatti, Sketches
- Improvisation - Sybil Shearer 410 S. Michigan
- Improvisation Turquoise Skirt
- In Place of Opinions- Ben Johnson
- "In the Shell" "6 Lev." (Audio)
- In the Wind
- "Inigra to End" (Audio)
- Interview - Agnes de Mille
- Jacque Brel, American Depot; [Multiple Titles and Composers] (Audio)
- "James Yannatos Violin and Piano" (Audio)
- Jen Jensen
- Jerry and Susie Leotards
- Jerry, Susie, 1st Half[illegible], etc.
- Jerry + Susie DUP
- Jessica
- Jimmy Concert Tape Safety Reel No 1 (Audio)
- Joan and Mia
- Joan and Mia
- Joan of Arc
- John Cage Prepared Piano (Audio)
- Juanita and Masad, Right After 1st Solo
- Juanita [?] Solo
- Juanita Solo-Bartok 1st
- Kentucky
- Last mov. Quartet
- Last Scene Created for Camera, P.J., Jerry, Juanita, Madge and Micah
- "Level 6" (Audio)
- Light Sweater Fall
- Louise Martin [Early Northbrook]
- Lyon's
- [M. Rul]
- Mad Figures
- Maria Callas-Turandot Reel 1 (Audio)
- Maria Callas-Turandot Reel 2 (Audio)
- Marla 1
- Marla 2
- Martha Hill (Audio)
- Mary and Dylan
- Mary and Jerry Gemma
- Masad and Class
- May 3 '92 Session Roll #2
- Milhaud Concerto for Percussion (Audio)
- Milhaud Concerto for Percussion (Audio)
- Milhaud Upside Down (Audio)
- Millie Dans [illegible] (Audio)
- "Mod Jazz Porgy and Bess" (Audio)
- Moderna
- Moderna
- Moderna
- Moderna
- Moderna Safety Master
- Moderna - Without Wings - The Way is Steep
- Moldy mag track (Audio)
- Moldy magnetic tape (Audio)
- [Morrison Reel 2 Dupe Discard]
- Moulin Rouge 1-Circus, Homer-Masao-Julie; 2 Can-can
- Moulin Rouge-Paris-Circus-Toby-PJ-2nd Half
- Mozart Eine Klein Nachtmusik (Audio)
- [Multiple Titles and Composers] (Audio)
- [Multiple Titles and Composers] (Audio)
- [Multiple Titles and Composers] (Audio)
- Mysterium Tremendium
- Mysterium Tremendium
- Mysterium Tremendium
- Mysterium Tremendium
- Mysterium Tremendium Safety Master
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Nat. 2nd Group, Class, Studio
- Nat. Coll. 1st Group and 2nd Group
- Nat. Coll. 78 Technique
- National '76
- National Children's Games Part 3 and 4
- National Children's Games Part II
- National College "Horses Tale" / Same as Side 1 Except Some Blank (Audio)
- National End, Pt. II, End Pt. 3, Pt. 4
- [National Endowment for the Arts Title Card]
- O Lost: Answer Print
- O Lost: Negative Optical Track
- O Lost: Negative [Picture]
- O Lost / No Peace on Earth / Scarlatti (2023 Preservation Print)
- Old From East Side of Studio Improvisation
- "Oriental Rock?" (Audio)
- "Outtake" (Audio)
- Over City and Solo (Audio)
- "Owen Haynes" (Audio)
- Pale Plaid (Original)
- Panatrope
- Panatrope
- Panatrope
- Paris - 3rd Act - Chris - 1st Act Group Walking
- Paris Bois de
- Paris-Bois de Boulogne
- Paris, Finale, 1st Half Toby, PJ and Barb; Moulin Rouge
- Paris-Margaret and Masad-Act 1
- Paris, Toby and Juanita, Marla, Mason, Homer
- Pastoral
- Pastoral - [Green Plaid Overalls with Red Shirt]
- Patti Jean 1
- Patti Jean 2
- Patti Jean-Degas-Eric Bruhn
- "Paul Fetler Contrasts" "Otto Luening" (Audio)
- Performance Concert Tape Nicolson (Audio)
- Philosophy of Freedom and the Gospel of St. John (Audio)
- "Piano, Ravel Ondine" (Audio)
- Plaid Jumper Piece (Mozart #1)
- Plaid Overalls
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music
- Popular Music: 10-21-94
- Popular Music 16mm pos/Mag tfr.
- [Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You” excerpts?]
- Port A Bras Study (Margot et al, Patty, Shelbee and Lillian)
- "Poulenc Les Biches" (Audio)
- Poulenc les Biches (Audio)
- Puddle
- Puddle Beginning (Audio)
- Puddle-electric (Audio)
- "Puddle- Pieces- Running- Numbers- Ticket Please" and on reel "Albeniz/Toby" "Iberia Evocation" "Iberia el Puerto" "Cantos- De Espania Sequidillas" (Audio)
- Quartet – End Forward Turn Class
- "Quicksilver M.S. Calvary" (Audio)
- "Quicksilver M.S. Who do you Love Cut" (Audio)
- Races 1
- Races 2
- Ravel Ondine
- Ravel Ondine
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [2nd Movement]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1961, 3 Movements]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1961, 3rd Movement]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [1983, in Costume]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, 5-Pieces 1]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, 5-Pieces 2]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [at National, Unfinished]; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Incomplete Color Test]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Incomplete Color Test with Sound]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Sybil Solo]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [Trio Lyric with Sybil, Masad & Toby]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The [“Up to Unison” & “Raising Arms” in B&W]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The ["Up to Unison" & "Raising Arms" in Color]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle Is Mine; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in The Puddle is Mine; Time Longs For Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine; Time Longs for Eternity
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine - Time Longs for Eternity
- "Respigni- Schubert" "Cukor 1st" "Birds" (Audio)
- Return of the Herd, The
- "Return Part 1" "Reigger" "Stamping" "Upside Down" "Shell" "Bears" "Rugs" (Audio)
- "Rhudyar" (Audio)
- Risti Waltz (Audio)
- Rite of Spring National
- "Rock 3 3/4" (Audio)
- Roll #3, May 3 '92 2nd Session
- Roll 3 May 3, 1992 2nd Session
- Rose Plaid Overalls
- Rose Velvet Overalls
- "Rossini" "Sonnata #4 First Mov. Up to Repeat" "Third Mov." "First Mov Just the transition before the repeat" "2nd Mov." "Sonnata #6 1st Mov." "Sonnata #4 3rd Mov." (Audio)
- Rudhyar Four Dances Prologue (Audio)
- "Running Dance" "Numbers" "Ticket Please" "Eindhoven [illegible] inch [illegible]" (Audio)
- [Ruth Roberg - 12st Rag]
- S.S. Al Jolson
- Saint-Saens; Multiple Titles (Audio)
- A Salute to Old Friends
- A Salute to Old Friends
- A Salute to Old Friends
- A Salute to Old Friends
- A Salute to Old Friends 16mm In/Mag tfr.
- A Salute to Old Friends 16mm IN/Mag tfr.
- A Salute to Old Friends (2023 Preservation Print)
- Salute to Old Friends, A
- Salute to Old Friends, A
- Salute to Old Friends, A
- Salute To Old Friends, A
- A Salute to Old Friends: Negative [Picture]
- A Salute to Old Friends: Answer Print
- A Salute to Old Friends: Optical Negative Track
- A Salute to Old Friends Safety Master
- "Salute to Old Friends" Sybil Shearer
- Scarlatti (Fast), Bach (Molly), Scarlatti (Early Sun)
- Schoenberg Piano Concerto (Audio)
- Schuler [Cantor?]
- "Schuler Group and Solo" "Ravel Alberado Del Gracioso" (Audio)
- Schuler Ninette
- "Schuler Paul Klee Suite" (Audio)
- Section of Bowls (Susan, Margie, Toby)
- A Series of Grotesques
- Shades
- Shades Before Mars - Three Pedestrians
- "A Sheaf of Dreams" (Audio)
- A Sheaf of Dreams
- A Sheaf of Dreams
- Side 1 "1. Bartok Contrasts for Violin Clarinet and Piano 3- Fast Dance- Bartok D. Szigeti and B. Goodman C."2. Bartok- Microcosmos Exerpts- Vol. 1 Bela Bartok- Piano" Side 2 "Bartok- Concerto #3 Piano and Orch. Gyorgy Sandor- Ormandy Phila. Orch." "2. Bartok- Contrasts for Violin Piana and Clarinet 1.Recruting Dance 2.Relaxation" (Audio)
- Side 1 "1. Schubert- Sonata in E Flat Major Opus 122 Kathleen Long Piano" "2. Schubert- Sonata #9 A Major Opus 120 Casademus Piano" Side 2 "1. Schubert- Moment Musicals: Opus 94 #1-6 Arthur Schnebel- Piano" "2. Schubert Slow Movement? A Major Marion Hall Piano" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Beethoven Hammer Clavier and Ovation Beg. 4th, 3rd Mov. 2nd Mov. 1st Mov." Side 2 Beethoven Hammer Clavier 4th (Whole)" "Cukoos H. Brant" "Carlos Chavez" (Audio)
- Side 1 "[illegible] grand" "William Bergsma Chamillion Variations CRI140" Side 2 "Rossini" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Ornette Coleman" Side 2 "Blanc" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Poulenc-Les Biches" "Chu-Wen-Chung Landscapes" Side 2 "Master Works from France" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Poulenc- Les Biches" "Toujours Le Dimanche" Side 2 "Raccini" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Scriabin- Promethius" "Conclusion" "Britten Foursea Interludes- From Peter Grimes 1. Dawn 2. Sunday Morning 3. Moonlight 4. Storm" "Vaughan Williams The Wasps Overture Malcom Sargent Halle Orch." "De Falla- La Vida Breve Spanish Dance #1 St. Louis Orch. Golshman and Cond." Side 2 "A. Scriabin Poem of Ecstacy Opus 54 Stokowski- Phila. Orch." "A. Scriabin- Promethius Poem of Fire Opus 60 F Sharp Stokowski Phil. Orch." (Audio)
- Side 1- "Stravinsky three Pieces (Piano 2)" "Five Pieces [illegible] and Gold' "Stavinsky- Sonato for 2 pianos" Side 2-"Schuler- Gunther 7 Pieces after Paul Klee" (Audio)
- Side 1 "Suk-Seranade Opus 5 Decca Boyd Neel String Orch." "Roussel- Petite Suite Opus 39 Albade Pastoral" Side 2 "Roussel- Petite Suite Opus 39 Mascarade" "Faure- Pavane in F Sharp Minor Opus 50" "Rachmaninoff Isle of the Dead Phila. Orch. Rachm. Conducting" "Rachmaninoff Melodie in E Major Opus 3 Number 3 Rachmaninoff Pianist" (Audio)
- Side 2 "1. Corelli-Christmas-Concerto Grosso G Minor London Symphony B. Walter" "2. Bach Arias-Marion Anderson Robert Shaw Cond." "3. Bach Suite #2 for Flutes and Strings B Minor 1.Polonaise 2.Minuete 3.Badinerie Mengelberg C." "4. Bach-Prelude in A Flat Marion Hall-Piano" "5. Bach Three Preludes Marion Hall Piano" Side 1 "1 and 2. Bach Prelude and Fugue Marion Hall Piano" "3. Organ Fugue G Minor Olga Samaroff" "4.Bach Tocata and Fugue in E Minor Peter's Vol. IV #3 Rudolf Serkin Piano" "5. Corelli-Pinelli Suite for String Orch. Phila. Orch.- Ormandy 1.Saraband 2.Gigue 3.Badinerie" "6. Boccherini Sonata #2 in C Major for Cello and Piano Gregor Pietigorsky and V. Pietigorsky Piano" "7. Buxtenude- Organ Tocata and Fugue F Major- #2 Chorale Preludes- Carl Weinrich" "8. Frescobaldi- Tocata National Symp. Orch. Hans Kindler Cond. Bach- Choral: Jesus Christ Son of God- Easter Cantata" (Audio)
- "Sidney Bechet 1-10" (Audio)
- "Sidney Bechet 11-16" and "Mod Jazz Quartet- Morning in Paris" and "Gillespie- Wouldn't You- Tunisia" (Audio)
- Simolindell Peeking around Tree
- "Simollindell" (Audio)
- Singing [Incers?] Prokofiev (Audio)
- Singing Insects (Audio)
- Singing Insects Are Happy Enough; Stamping Won't Dent the World
- Slow one and [?]
- Slow one and [?]
- Slow Satie, Last Act – Paris
- Solos w/French Music and Bartok Mo-Derna Weil
- Solos w/ French Music, Plus, Bartok, Moderna, And Weil
- Solos with French Music
- Solos with French Music
- Solos with French Music
- Solos with French Music
- Solos with French Music
- Solos with French Music - Bartok, Moderna, and Wail
- Solos with French Music, Plus Bartok, Moderna, and Weil
- Solos with French Music - Without Wings the Way Is Steep - Stamping Won’t Dent the World
- Solos with French Music - Without Wings the Way Is Steep - Stamping Won’t Dent the World
- Soloy
- "The Sound of Christmas with the John Holloran Choir and the Concerttapes Orchestra Leonard Sorkin Conductor" (Audio)
- "Spanish and #3 Surinach" (Audio)
- SS Forward Chavez ATT
- SS [illegible] in tights
- SS ? ? [unreadable]
- St. Joan (Audio)
- St. Joan Canonization (Audio)
- St. Joan Reel 1 (Johnston) (Audio)
- St. Joan Reel 2 (Johnston) (Audio)
- "Stamping" (Audio)
- Stamping (Audio)
- Stamping Won't Dent the World
- Stamping Won't Dent the World; Great Day
- Still Point, The (Audio)
- Stomping For Mili
- Stravinsky (Audio)
- "Stravinsky" (Audio)
- Stravinsky 3rd Part w/o Group
- Stravinsky and Bach (Audio)
- Striped Film Empty
- Sue, May and Jerry; Beginning; Extra shots of 3 coming forward
- Suite From St. Joan-Ben Johnston (Audio)
- Susanna Linke 10/3 1990 Arts Club
- Susanne Linke
- Susie and Jerry
- Susie and Jerry 1st Half Performance, Costume
- Susie and Jerry, 3rd version, 1st half
- Susie and Jerry and Dino
- [Susie and Jerry and Toby Rehearsing the Quartet]
- Susie and Jerry, both last [illegible]
- Susie and Jerry (in Color) - Time Longs For Eternity for 4
- Sweater Variations (Audio)
- Sybil
- Sybil Dancing in Plaid Overalls - Studio Turning
- Sybil Dancing in the Wind
- Sybil Ham [?]
- Sybil Shearer 2/24/2001 Fire Side
- Sybil Shearer 10/29/81 IA / Shearer 10/29/81 IB (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer 10/29/81 IIA (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer "A Salute to Old Friends"
- Sybil Shearer "A Sheaf of Dreams" 58:23 12-9-93
- Sybil Shearer "A Sheaf of Dreams" Dub Master 58:20 1-22-96
- Sybil Shearer "A Sheaf of Dreams" Transfer From 16mm POS OPT Print 58:20 6/10/92
- Sybil Shearer "A Sheap of Dreams"
- Sybil Shearer - Bach, Corelli, Scarlatti
- Sybil Shearer Concert 3-6-71 Part 1 (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer Concert 3-6-71 Part 2 (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer Concert 3-6-71 Part 3 (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer Conversation with Barzel, Manchester Martin
- Sybil Shearer Conversation with Barzel, Manchester Martin
- Sybil Shearer "Conversations with Louis Horst" 16mm B&W Pos/Mag tfr. 30:50 6-10-92
- Sybil Shearer Conversations with Louis Host
- Sybil Shearer Conversations with Louis Host
- Sybil Shearer "Early Northbrook - First" 19:30 1-22-96
- Sybil Shearer "Early Northbrook - Jean D'Arc" Dub Master 19:30 1-22-96
- Sybil Shearer Early Northbrook Jean D'Are
- Sybil Shearer "Early Solos" Dub Master 14:00 1-22-96
- Sybil Shearer Improvisations Solos From Bartok 6
- Sybil Shearer "Mysterium Tremendium"
- Sybil Shearer on Steiner #1 (Audio)
- "Sybil Shearer Out of Doors" "Outdoor Street (Copy)" "Plaid Overalls" (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer Popular Music
- Sybil Shearer Rehearsal Tape Mid 1980s
- Sybil Shearer Rosary College (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer The Tree
- Sybil Shearer Tribute Recording (Audio)
- Sybil Shearer Untitled Dances
- Sybil Shearer: Untitled Dances (2023 Preservation Print)
- Sybil Shearer "Untitled Dances" Transfer From B&W POS & 16mm Mag Track 30:30 4/7/92
- Sybil Shearer - Walter Jerry
- Sybil Shearer Walter Jerry
- Sybil Shearer "Walter Jerry" 16mm Color Pos Print Transfer 20:30 4/7/92
- Sybil Shearer "Walter Jerry" 20:33 Safety Master 12-9-93
- Sybil Shearer "Walter Jerry" Dub Master 20:30 1-22-96
- Sybil Shearer Within this Thicker 1st Version
- Sybil Shearer Within this Thicker 1st Version
- Sybil Shearer "Within This Thicket - 1st Vers." 16mm B&W Orig/Mag tfr. 22:30 5-29-92
- Sybil Shearer "Within This Thicket" 1st Version SAFETY MASTER 22:30 12-10-93
- Sybil Shearer "Within This Thicket" 3 Versions 16mm Pos/Mag tfr. 43:30 6-8-92
- Sybil Shearer Without Wings the Way is Steep Version 6
- Sybil Teaching
- "Tchaikovsky" [Multiple Titles and Composers on Reel] (Audio)
- Teaching Sybil Thicket 2
- "That's Aplenty- Goodman" "Sargent Pepper Thunder and Lightening" (Audio)
- Thicket Costumes
- "Three Jazz Vibraphone?" (Audio)
- Thunder and Lightening Polka - Sweater and Skirt
- Times Square
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- Title Card for Untitled Dances
- Titles
- Toby
- Toby and Juanita-Moulin Rouge, Stage, Class
- Toby and Juantia - Paris Was In France
- Toby as Rundunce
- Toby, Chris, Sue, PJ #1
- Toby, Chris, Sue, PJ #2
- Toby, Great Day
- Toby-Great Day II-Dawn-Evening
- Toby Great Day (Morning)
- Toby, Juanita-Paris Was In France
- Toby Teaching
- Toby - The Great Day
- "Tohopees" "Toehoppaes" (Audio)
- "Tohoppies", "Prayer", "Bugs, "Brueghel"
- "Ton Lew Messages in the Wind" (Audio)
- "Toujours Les Dimanche- Poulenc" (Audio)
- The Tree
- The Tree
- The Tree
- The Tree DUB MASTER
- The Tree SAFETY MASTER
- Trees and S/S
- Uki Heineman
- Uki Heineman
- UKI Heineman Sybil Shearer Film by Helen Balfour Morrison 8/5/83
- UKI Heineman Sybil Shearer Film by Helen Balfour Morrison 8/5/83
- Unidentified Solo Dancer Probably Someone that Sybil Knew
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- Untitled (“#15”)
- Untitled (“#16”)
- Untitled (“#17”)
- [Untitled Company Dance]
- [Untitled Company Dance]
- [Untitled Company Dance]
- [Untitled Company Dance excerpt]
- [Untitled Company Dance excerpts]
- Untitled Dances
- Untitled Dances
- Untitled Dances
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- Untitled Dances
- Untitled Dances
- Untitled Dances: Answer Print
- [Untitled Dances excerpts?]
- Untitled Dances intro
- Untitled Dances: Negative Optical Track
- Untitled Dances: Negative [Picture]
- Untitled Dances SAFETY MASTER
- Untitled Dances [Titles]
- Untitled Dances [Titles]
- Untitled Dances [Titles]
- [Untitled dark excerpt]
- Untitled excerpt
- [Untitled leader]
- Untitled Positive Track
- [Untitled Solo]
- [Untitled Solo excerpt]
- [Untitled Solo excerpt]
- Untitled Toby Outtake [Sheaf of Dreams excerpt?]
- [Untitled work print excerpt]
- "Vioin concerto with Voices Jimmy Badings" (Audio)
- Vivaldi
- Vivaldi Opus: The Bullfinch (Audio)
- "Voice" (Audio)
- Wall [Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey excerpt?]
- Waltzes (Audio)
- Web and Tendril, Part II
- Web and Tendril, Part IV
- Web and Tendril Part IV
- Wheels Make Walking Passé
- Wheels Make Walking Passé
- Wheels Make Walking Passé
- Wheels Make Walking Passé
- Wheels Make Walking Passé; Reflection in the Puddle is Mine [Trio, Two Versions]
- Wheels - Vacuum - Stamping etc. (Audio)
- White Tights and Leotard
- Whole Lot of Love
- William Blake Poem Beethoven (Audio)
- "Windows Dub for Alida" - Roll 2, 2nd Session, May 2, 1992
- "Wings" (Audio)
- "Wings" "Bible 5152" (Audio)
- Within the Thicker 3 Versions
- Within the Thicker 3 Versions
- Within This Thicket
- Within This Thicket
- Within This Thicket - 6 Bartok
- Within This Thicket (Part 2 Incomplete)
- Within This Thicket SAFETY MASTER
- Within This Thicket: Three Versions
- Within This Thicket: Three Versions
- "Without Wings Part" (Audio)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (Version 5)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (Version 7)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (with Motion Version)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (without motion version)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (without motion version)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (without motion version 3)
- Without Wings the Way is Steep (without motion version 4)
- WTTW Mental Health #10 Reel 2
- Wynne-Jones
- Wynne-Jones Family
- Xmas Party Conversation 1984 (Audio)
- Xmas Party Conversation 1984 Roll 2 (Audio)
- You Made Me Love You
- [You Made Me Love You ?]
- O Lost - Every Nook and Cranny - In a Vacuum - Shallow Water - No Peace on Earth
- In a Vacuum
- In a Vacuum
- In a Vacuum
- In a Vacuum [incomplete]
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- In a Vacuum [incomplete]
- In a Vacuum [outtake]
- Bach
- [Bach in Studio]
- [Bach Mysterium Tremendum]
- Brittain O (First Half) - Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysterium Tremendum [incomplete]
- Mysterium Tremendum [White Costume]
- Mysterium Tremendum [White Costume]
- No Peace on Earth
- No Peace on Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace On Earth
- No Peace on Earth
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Popular Music: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You”
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Doris Humphrey [excerpt]
- Salute to Old Friends: Walter Terry
- Salute to Old Friends: Walter Terry
- Salute to Old Friends: Walter Terry
- Shades Before Mars (2 + 1/2 + 1 Wishes)
- Shades Before Mars (3 Pedestrians)
- Shades Before Mars (Magic Dances 1, 2, 3)
- Shades Before Mars (Magic Dances 4, 5)
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish (B&W version - Silent Excerpt)
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [B&W version]
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [silent excerpts]
- Shades Before Mars: The First Wish [silent original]
- Shades Before Mars (Version 1)
- Shades Before Mars (Version 2)
- Shades Before Mars (Version 3)
- Solos with French Music: Francaix
- Solos with French Music: Francaix
- Solos with French Music: Francaix [silent original]
- Solos with French Music: Poulenc
- Solos with French Music: Poulenc
- Solos with French Music: Poulenc [silent original]
- Solos with French Music: Ravel
- Solos with French Music: Ravel
- Solos with French Music: Ravel [silent original]
- Solos with French Music: Satie
- Solos with French Music: Satie
- Solos with French Music: Satie [silent original]
- Corelli
- Untitled Dances: Corelli (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Corelli (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Corelli (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Corelli (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Corelli (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Corelli, Debussy, Ravel, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Moussorgsky (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Debussy (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Debussy (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Debussy [silent original]
- Moussorgsky (Version 1)
- Moussorgsky (Version 2)
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- Untitled Dances: Moussorgsky (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Moussorgsky (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Moussorgsky (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Rachmaninoff [incomplete]
- Ravel Toccata
- Untitled Dances: Ravel (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Ravel (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Ravel (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Ravel (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances Ravel Mag Track Trim
- Carnegie Hall - Scarlatti - Corelli
- Scarlatti
- Scarlatti
- Untitled Dances: Scarlatti
- Untitled Dances: Scarlatti
- Untitled Dances: Schubert (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Schubert (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Schubert (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Schubert (British Film Institute)
- Untitled Dances: Schubert (British Film Institute) [Dupe]
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep
- Without Wings the Way is Steep [silent original]
- The Reflection in the Puddle is Mine - Time Longs for Eternity
- Electronic Music Score Used in Puddle Part 2 (Audio)
- Puddle (Audio)
- Reflection in the Puddle
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine, The
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- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine [Trio Version 1]
- Reflection in the Puddle is Mine [Trio Version 2]
- Eternity II
- Eternity II
- Eternity II [Outs]
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Time Longs for Eternity
- Time Longs for Eternity (Audio)
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Time Longs For Eternity
- Rundunce
- Rundunce
- Rundunce (Audio)
- Rundunce at Cabin
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Beginning at Tree]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Celnt Dundunce Liloni Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Celnt Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [excerpt]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra at McKinney’s]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra at Wyatt’s]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Going From Tree to Pond]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Running Opening Scene]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Inigra Tree & Ground Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Medmiga Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Nature and Dog Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [OJ at River Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Outtakes?]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Outtakes?]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A (Part 1)
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A (Part 1)
- Sheaf of Dreams, A (Part 2)
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Quilla & Nollie Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Quilla Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Rundunce at Mildred’s Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Rundunce Morning Flower Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Rundunce with Wrag Outtakes]
- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Rundunce with Wrag Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Simolindell]
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- Sheaf of Dreams, A [Simollindell & Lilloni Outtakes]
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- Sheaf of Dreams Brahms (Audio)
- Sheaf of Dreams Brahms (Audio)
- Sheaf of Dreams [Outtakes]
- Conversations with Ann Barzel
- Conversations with Ann Barzel, P.W. Manchester, and John Martin
- Conversations with Ann Bazel
- Conversations with John Martin
- Conversations with Louis Horst [magnetic soundtrack]
- Conversations With Louis Horst [silent original]
- Conversations with P.W. Manchester
- Louis Horst Interview
- Walter Terry Film Tape (Audio)
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry Interview
- Walter Terry June 14, 1980 (Audio)
- Air For G String
- Bell and Howell Practice Film For Filmo Sound
- Granton Trawler
- 1955 circa: Sybil and Tura
- The Balfour Morrison Family, circa 1936
- Balfour Morrison Home Movies, circa 1936
- Balfour Morrison Home Movies, circa 1936
- Chicago in Black-and-White
- Chicago in Black and White
- Chicago in Black and White (2024 Preservation Print)
- Chicago in Black-and-White (2024 Preservation Print)
- Chicago in Black and White: Answer Print
- Chicago in Black-and-White: Answer Print
- Chicago in Black and White: Negative
- Chicago in Black-and-White: Negative
- Chicago in Color: Answer Print
- Chicago in Color / Kentucky
- Chicago in Color / Kentucky (2024 Preservation Print)
- Chicago in Color: Negatvie
- Dogs in Color
- Family: McCootain, Squeakie-Bob, Harriet, Rosemary, Helen and Sybil
- J. and Dogs
- Lyons in Color
- New York City in Color / Chicago in Color
- Sybil and Mike On Porch
- Sybil's Christmas Party
- Sybil Shearer and Dogs
- Tain and Sybil
- Tain in Arizona
- [Untitled Home Movie]
SERIES I: Solo Dances
SERIES II: Company Dances
SERIES III: A Sheaf of Dreams
SERIES IV: Interviews
SERIES V: Commercial Films
SERIES VI: Personal Films
Collection Identifier
C.2019-14
Extent of Collection
411 16mm reels, 187 8mm films and 10 1/4" video tapes totaling 151,157' in length; 45 3/4" U-MATIC cassette tapes; 6 VHS tapes
Language Of Materials
English
Subject
Custodial History
Most films were created at the Northbrook home and studio of Helen Morrison and Sybil Shearer. All films had been held at the Northbrook home of Helen Morrison which was on the same property as Sybil Shearer’ studio. Helen Morrison's residence and Sybil Shearer’s studio are now the Morrison-Shearer Foundation headquarters. In 2008 the films were moved to Chicago Film Archives at the behest of the Foundation in order to have them managed and cared for in more ideal circumstances.
Related Materials
The Morrison Shearer Foundation is a resource for additional information about this collection and its history.
The Newberry Library holds the papers of both Sybil Shearer and Helen Balfour Morrison.
Other relevant collections at Chicago Film Archives include:
- The Ruth Page Collection, which contains the work of another significant Chicago-based modern dance choreographer
- The Chicago Public Library Collection, which contains films of various works by Martha Graham
The Newberry Library holds the papers of both Sybil Shearer and Helen Balfour Morrison.
Other relevant collections at Chicago Film Archives include:
- The Ruth Page Collection, which contains the work of another significant Chicago-based modern dance choreographer
- The Chicago Public Library Collection, which contains films of various works by Martha Graham
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to on-site access. Appointments must be made with Chicago Film Archives. Due to the fragile nature of the films, only video copies will be provided for on-site viewing.
Use Restrictions
In 2019 the Morrison Shearer Foundation gifted the collection to Chicago Film Archives, but retained their status as the sole copyright owner. At this same time, MSF granted CFA the exclusive rights to use the material with the agreement that the Foundation would be notified of its use.
Creators
Shearer, Sybil
(was created by)
Sybil Shearer (1912-2005) burst upon the modern dance scene in October 1941 in a solo debut at Carnegie Hall that received rave reviews and an award from critic John Martin as the year’s most promising solo choreographer. Already setting a radical new direction in modern dance, she came to believe that New York was no place to develop dance as an art.
In 1942 she left New York for the new Roosevelt College in Chicago, where she was given the freedom to work independently, close to nature, and in her own unorthodox way. Within a month of her arrival, she met Helen Balfour Morrison, the photographer who became her artistic collaborator for the next forty years. Thus began a career of one of the finest dancers of the 20th century, though deemed “elusive,” and “rarely seen.”
Shearer formed the Morrison-Shearer Foundation in 1991 to perpetuate their artistic legacy. Under the auspices of the Foundation, she brought Susanne Linke, the German expressionist dancer, to Chicago in 1991 to perform at the Harold Washington Library. In 1993 she arranged a tour to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the Hamburg Ballet, whose director, John Neumeier, had been a member of the Sybil Shearer Company in the 1960s. In February 2005 she danced publicly for the last time at the Art Institute of Chicago, interpreting Matisse in the "Artists and Dance" program, just nine months before her death at the age of 93.
Morrison, Helen Balfour
(was created by)
In 1942 she left New York for the new Roosevelt College in Chicago, where she was given the freedom to work independently, close to nature, and in her own unorthodox way. Within a month of her arrival, she met Helen Balfour Morrison, the photographer who became her artistic collaborator for the next forty years. Thus began a career of one of the finest dancers of the 20th century, though deemed “elusive,” and “rarely seen.”
Shearer formed the Morrison-Shearer Foundation in 1991 to perpetuate their artistic legacy. Under the auspices of the Foundation, she brought Susanne Linke, the German expressionist dancer, to Chicago in 1991 to perform at the Harold Washington Library. In 1993 she arranged a tour to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the Hamburg Ballet, whose director, John Neumeier, had been a member of the Sybil Shearer Company in the 1960s. In February 2005 she danced publicly for the last time at the Art Institute of Chicago, interpreting Matisse in the "Artists and Dance" program, just nine months before her death at the age of 93.
Helen Balfour Morrison (1901-1984) was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Fannie Lindley and Alexander Balfour, an engineer and a proud, aristocratic Scotsman. When Helen was 17, her mother died, and Helen took a job in a photography studio to help support the family. At this studio she learned to use the portrait camera and helped expand the studio's business with creative ideas of her own.
In the 1930s, Helen Balfour Morrison embarked upon a personal photography project - the Great Americans series. She photographed some 200 notable personalities including Robert Frost, Helen Hayes, Nelson Algren, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, Mies van der Rohe, Amelia Earhart, Jane Addams, and Saul Bellow. Most of these portrait sessions took place in Chicago or in New York and were exhibited widely in museums throughout the country.
In 1942, Morrison met Sybil Shearer, and although her portrait work and exhibitions of the Great Americans continued, her attention gradually shifted to Sybil as her primary subject. She finally abandoned the Great Americans series in 1945. Her collaboration with Sybil Shearer produced a large collection of extraordinary dance photographs and films, as well as an intense and sensitive documentation of the life of this artist.
Today her extensive portfolio remains largely unpublished and unknown. In a real sense she sacrificed her own career to promote that of Sybil. Besides designing the lighting, Helen took over the complete management of Sybil's publicity, performances, travel arrangements, and hospitality. She experimented with the role of impresario, presenting dancer Ruth St. Denis in 1946 and both dancer Eleanor King and sculptor Richard Lippold in 1948. In 1949 she conceived a short-lived series of programs which she called "Rondo," presenting other artists, including Uta Hagan, Merce Cunningham, pianist William Masselos, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In later years she made films to record Sybil's dances, and made one artistic film of her own.
In the 1930s, Helen Balfour Morrison embarked upon a personal photography project - the Great Americans series. She photographed some 200 notable personalities including Robert Frost, Helen Hayes, Nelson Algren, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, Mies van der Rohe, Amelia Earhart, Jane Addams, and Saul Bellow. Most of these portrait sessions took place in Chicago or in New York and were exhibited widely in museums throughout the country.
In 1942, Morrison met Sybil Shearer, and although her portrait work and exhibitions of the Great Americans continued, her attention gradually shifted to Sybil as her primary subject. She finally abandoned the Great Americans series in 1945. Her collaboration with Sybil Shearer produced a large collection of extraordinary dance photographs and films, as well as an intense and sensitive documentation of the life of this artist.
Today her extensive portfolio remains largely unpublished and unknown. In a real sense she sacrificed her own career to promote that of Sybil. Besides designing the lighting, Helen took over the complete management of Sybil's publicity, performances, travel arrangements, and hospitality. She experimented with the role of impresario, presenting dancer Ruth St. Denis in 1946 and both dancer Eleanor King and sculptor Richard Lippold in 1948. In 1949 she conceived a short-lived series of programs which she called "Rondo," presenting other artists, including Uta Hagan, Merce Cunningham, pianist William Masselos, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In later years she made films to record Sybil's dances, and made one artistic film of her own.