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6 unusual facts about Jay Leyda


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Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it his "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy".

Eisenstein on Disney

Eisenstein on Disney (1986) is a book by film critic Jay Leyda that collects and reprints the various literature that Sergei Eisenstein produced about Disney.

Films Beget Films

Films Beget Films is a 1964 book written by Jay Leyda.

Jay Leyda

Leyda’s wife, Si-lan Chen, a ballet dancer of international reputation, was the daughter of Eugene Chen, a colleague of the Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen.

He participated in the filming of Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935–37).

A Bronx Morning (1931) (11 minutes, black and white, silent), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.



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