Jerome Hill
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Jerome Hill (2 March 1905, St. Paul, Minnesota - 21 November 1972, New York City) was an American filmmaker and artist.
His short film La Cartomancienne (1932) was restored for the DVD collection Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941 released in October 2005. His short documentary Ski Flight (1938) with famous skier Otto Lang premiered at Radio City Music Hall on 4 February 1938.
His most famous work was Film Portrait (1972), an autobiographical piece about the artist's own life, which won numerous awards and is one of only 450 films nominated for the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.