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Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

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Edited by
  
Sara Fishko

Initial release
  
January 1996

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Release date
  
1996 (1996)

Editor
  
Sara Fishko

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Directed by
  
Karen GoodmanKirk Simon

Produced by
  
Karen GoodmanKirk Simon

Productioncompany
  
Simon & Goodman Picture Company

Cinematography
  
Kirk Simon, Buddy Squires, Terry Hopkins, Gary Steele

Cast
  
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Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996) is a PBS American Masters documentary on the inventor, visionary, and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller produced and directed by Academy Award nominees Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. Cinematography by Buddy Squires, edited by Sara Fishko, and a production of Simon & Goodman Picture Company.

Fuller, who died in 1983, is considered by some to be one of the 20th century's most noteworthy, controversial, and creative thinkers. The film looks at his unconventional life, his innovations, and his radical view of the contemporary world. Best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, Fuller had many other inventions, such as an air-streamed three-wheeled car and many other ideas of how to "benefit mankind."

The film includes interviews with Philip Johnson, Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Arthur Penn. It is narrated by Morley Safer, with Spalding Gray as the voice of Buckminster Fuller. The filmmakers were the first journalists to have open access to the vast collections of Fuller's personal papers. As Fuller was widely documented, the film includes extensive archival footage of Fuller from many sources. The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Cultural/Historical Documentary the same year.

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Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud Wikipedia


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