- Was a teacher of both film students and film archivists.
- Was from Ohio.
- Was a very accomplished still photographer. In fact, this is how he got into making films.
- Was a published poet.
- Was a very big Herman Melville fan.
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1965.
- He taught at Yale University and at York University in Toronto during the 1960s and early 1970s. He came to New York University in 1973, and held the Pinewood Chair of Cinema Studies until his death.
- He wrote and edited books about Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Modest Mussorgsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
- He enlisted in Los Angeles as a private in the U.S. Army on 11 November 1943, during World War II.
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