Herman G. Weinberg (1908–83) would become known as one of the greatest American film critics of his generation, but in the early 1930s he was also an aspiring filmmaker, and his debut film was the now lost film called A City Symphony, which Weinberg repurposed for his 1933 film Autumn Fire.
Anthony Kinik
further reading
Uricchio, William, “The City Viewed: The Films of Leyda, Browning, and Weinberg,” in Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.), Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919–1945 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 287–314.
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