1. Len Lye

2. WHO IS LEN LYE? Leonard Charles Huia Lye
5 July May New Zealand- born Christchurch

3. Lye was married twice. His first wife was Jane Thompson and had two children with her:
-Bix Lye
-Yancy Ning Lou Lye
In Las Vegas in May 1948, Lye married his second wife, Annette "Ann" Zeiss
He died in Warwick (New York)

4. -Tusalava (1929)
-The Peanut Vendor (1933)
-Kaleidoscope (1935) in Dufavcolor
-A Colour Box (1935) in Dufaycolor
-Rainbow Dance (1936) in Gasparcolor
-The Birth of The Robot (1936) in Gasparcolor
-Trade Tattoo (1937) inTechnicolor
-Full Fathom Five (1937)
-Colour Flight (1937) in Gasparcolor
-North or Northwest? (N or NW?) (1938)
-Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1939) in Dufaycolor
-Musical Poster Number One (1940) in Technicolor
-When the Pie Was Opened (1941)
-Kill or Be Killed (1942)
-Color Cry (1952)
-All Soul's Carnival (1957)
-Rhythm (1957)
-The Sign of Plexiglass (collaboration) (1959)
-Free Radicals(1958, revised 1979)
-Particles in Space (1979)
-Tall Farlow(completed posthumously, 1980)

5. Preferred Film Style
Technicolor
Gasparcolor
Dufaycolor

6. Producer: John Grierson Producer: Gerald Noxon Producer: Basil Wright
Producer: James Manilla Producer: John Taylor Producer: Humphrey Jennings Producer: Gerald Noxon Producer: Alberto Cavalcanti Production company: The March of Time Production company: Realist Films Production company: Direct Film Company Sponsor: Post Office Savings Bank Sponsor: Imperial Tobacco Company Sponsor: GPO Film Unit Sponsor: New Zealand Film Commission
Filmography
Camera: Frank Jones Camera: A.E. Jeakins Camera: Alex Strasser Editor: Ernst Meyer Camera: Alex Strasser Actor and Narrator: Anais Nin
Actors: Evelyn Corbett, Dwight Goodwin Actors: Valerie Forrest, Hilde Masters Actor: Duncan Chisholm Synchronisation: Jack Ellitt Music: the Lecuona Band

7. Current Work…

8. Impacts on New Zealand…
The Foundation is a non profit incorporated society reproduction and promotion of the works of Len Lye
The Foundation holds copyright for a lot of the material it owns.
Gives a place for researches
Before Len Lye past away arrangements were made to establish the Len Lye Foundation. Len Lye's collection of work was returned to New Zealand.