 Jay Leyda

Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988) was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his documentatary compilations on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.Leyda was born on February 12, 1910, in Detroit, Michigan.