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John Korty is best known for directing the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He also directed the animated feature Twice Upon a Time (1983), produced by George Lucas.
John Korty won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1977 for Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?. The same film also earned him a Directors Guild of America award, an Emmy, and a Humanitas Prize.
Lumage, short for Luminous Image, was a backlit cut-out animation technique developed by John Korty. He used it for his Sesame Street and Electric Company shorts, often working with a synthetic fabric called Pellon to achieve a consistent visual style. The technique originated from cut-out experiments he began at Antioch College.
Korty's barn studio at Stinson Beach in Marin County inspired both George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish their own studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. Korty later became a tenant at Coppola's Zoetrope Studios before moving out after a rent increase. Korty Films became part of what is known as the "New Hollywood."
David Fincher worked for John Korty during the period when Korty was making animated shorts for Sesame Street. Fincher's sister also appeared as a child performer in one of those segments.
John Korty died on the 9th of March 2022. His brother Doug reported that the cause of death was vascular dementia. Korty was born on the 22nd of June 1936 in Lafayette, Indiana.