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A still photographer, cinematographer, editor and documentarian, Eagle emigrated to the US from Hungary with his family in 1929. He joined the Film and Photo League, an organization concerned with documentary photographs and newsreels, in 1932 and began photographing Orthodox Jews on Manhattan's Lower East Side two years later. (The photographs were posthumously published in a volume entitled "At Home Only With God".) Eagle worked for the Works Project Administration (WPA), as a freelance photographer for "The Saturday Evening Post" and as a cinematographer for both avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter ("Dreams that Money Can Buy" 1946) and documentarian Robert Flaherty ("Louisiana Story" 1948)....
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Filmography

Acting: Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio - ( Associate Producer / 1981 / Released / Davada Enterprises Ltd )
Acting: Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio - ( Editor / 1981 / Released / Davada Enterprises Ltd )
The Challenge - ( Editor / 1976 / Released / )
The Challenge - ( Cinematographer(- cinematography) / 1976 / Released / )

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A still photographer, cinematographer, editor and documentarian, Eagle emigrated to the US from Hungary with his family in 1929. He joined the Film and Photo League, an organization concerned with documentary photographs and newsreels, in 1932 and began photographing Orthodox Jews on Manhattan's Lower East Side two years later. (The photographs were posthumously published in a volume entitled "At Home Only With God".) Eagle worked for the Works Project Administration (WPA), as a freelance photographer for "The Saturday Evening Post" and as a cinematographer for both avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter ("Dreams that Money Can Buy" 1946) and documentarian Robert Flaherty ("Louisiana Story" 1948). He also made several documentaries of his own, taught filmmaking at New York's New School for Social Research and contributed to books about modern art and the Actors Studio.

Profession(s):
editor, director of photography, documentarian, documentary still photographer, freelance photographer, educator
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Family
daughter:Masahiko Eagle (survived him)
daughter:Susan Eagle (survived him)
sister:Gladys Roberts (survived him)
wife:Dorothy Eagle (survived him)
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1981 Edited "Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio"
1976 Photographed and edited "The Challenge: A Tribute to Modern Art", a documentary on 20th century modern artists
1955 Joined the faculty of the New School for Social Research, where he taught filmmaking
1948 Worked with celebrated documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty on "Louisiana Story" as a cinematographer and still photographer
1946 Worked as cinematographer on Hans Richter's segment of the episodic avant-garde film, "Dreams That Money Can Buy"
1945 Joined the documentary project headed by Roy Stryker for Standard Oil of New Jersey
1935 Joined the Works Project Administration (WPA) as a photographer
1934 Began work on a collection of photos of Orthodox Jews on the Lower East Side of NYC
1932 Joined the Film and Photo League, an organization concerned with documentary photography and newsreels
1929 Immigrated to the US with his family
Produced documentary studies for the WPA on NYC slums
Worked as a freelance photographer for various publications including "Fortune" and "The Saturday Evening Post"

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