Frank Stauffacher(1916-1955)
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Editor
Independent filmmaker who started Art in Cinema, a groundbreaking
series of experimental and independent films shown at San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1946. His impressionistic
documentaries Sausalito (1948) and Notes on the Port of St. Francis
(1951) are currently (2005) in the process of being restored from old
prints. Brother of famed typeface and graphic designer Jack
Stauffacher, founder of Greenwood Press in SF.