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In 1944, Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mingled with artists who would later become the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged emerging New York filmmakers such as Francis Lee, taught alongside Hans Richter, and assisted Ian Hugo on Bells of Atlantis. Color Cry was based on an evolution of the “rayogram” or “shadow cast” technique, using fabrics as stencils, with the images synchronized to a haunting blues song by Sonny Terry—a song Lye imagined as the anguished cry of a runaway slave. —Harvard Film Archive