Robert Snyder

American documentary filmmaker (1916–2004), an Academy Award-winning documentarian who made extended films of Buckminster Fuller, most notably Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario.

Snyder specialized in film portraits of major cultural figures (he won an Oscar for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo). His long filmed conversations with Fuller captured Fuller's spoken thought at length; that material fed both the Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario and the 1972 Doubleday picture book Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth, which pairs Fuller's words with photographs.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Snyder is Fuller's documentarian — the filmmaker who preserved Fuller's voice and self-narration on film, a primary source behind several of the corpus's Fuller-in-his-own-words works.

See Also

• Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth — the picture book drawn from his filmed material
• Everything I Know — another Fuller-in-his-own-words source, the recorded lecture transcripts
• Jaime Snyder (Jaime Snyder) — related figure
• Allegra Fuller Snyder (Allegra Fuller Snyder) — related figure
• Yousuf Karsh (Yousuf Karsh) — related figure

Sources

• Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth (source reference) — the work attributing his filmed material