Stacy Woodard
Stacy Robert Woodard (born June 11, 1902 Salt Lake City, Utah, died 27 January 1942 New York City, age 39) was a producer, cinematographer, and editor of nature films, who with his brother Horace Woodard edited Frank Buck’s film Fang and Claw. Stacy Woodard was the son of Robert F. Woodard, listed as a gasoline salesman on the 1910 US Census, and Christine Woodard. Stacy was educated at the Universities of Chicago and Arizona, specializing in biology. Before entering motion pictures he took part in surveys in the West and Alaska. The two brothers, Stacy and Horace Woodard, cooperated in every aspect of the making of the "Struggle to Live" series of one-reel films for Educational-Fox ("Struggle for Life," "Life in the Deep," and "Man, the Enigma"), sharing the producing, writing, photographing, directing and editing. These pictures displayed the masterly use of the microscopic camera, devised by Stacy Woodard, a huge apparatus weighing two tons, erected in the garage of its inventor's Santa Monica home.
Producer
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Beneath Our Feet
"Literal forests" of life in the grass beneath us are explored via a microscopic camera in this instructive short. We see how an ant drinks from a dewdrop without bursting it and how crickets court (hint: it's noisy). It is an eat-or-be-eaten world as we watch aphids consumed...Watch Movie
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Battle of the Centuries
This "Pictoreel" studies a "fantastical world of romance in which tragedy reigns supreme." Or so says the narrator of our setting, a mere "old tree stump" that hides a termite city. Their insect society is divided between workers and soldiers, the latter seen fiercely...Watch Movie
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Adventures of Chico
Billed as "A Tale of the Strangest Friendship Ever Known!" this was the sole long-form work created by brothers Horace and Stacy Woodard, who'd already won two Academy Awards® for their short nature documentaries. The narrative/nonfiction hybrid lets us spend time with Chico,...Watch Movie
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City of Wax
The Woodard brothers won an Academy Award® for this documentary short illustrating the complex world of bees who've found "a hollow tree in which to build a city," as Gayne Whitman's narration puts it. The siblings' microscopic camera captures the society of male drones, sterile female workers...Watch Movie
Director
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Beneath Our Feet
"Literal forests" of life in the grass beneath us are explored via a microscopic camera in this instructive short. We see how an ant drinks from a dewdrop without bursting it and how crickets court (hint: it's noisy). It is an eat-or-be-eaten world as we watch aphids consumed...Watch Movie
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Adventures of Chico
Billed as "A Tale of the Strangest Friendship Ever Known!" this was the sole long-form work created by brothers Horace and Stacy Woodard, who'd already won two Academy Awards® for their short nature documentaries. The narrative/nonfiction hybrid lets us spend time with Chico,...Watch Movie
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City of Wax
The Woodard brothers won an Academy Award® for this documentary short illustrating the complex world of bees who've found "a hollow tree in which to build a city," as Gayne Whitman's narration puts it. The siblings' microscopic camera captures the society of male drones, sterile female workers...Watch Movie
Cinematographer
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Adventures of Chico
Billed as "A Tale of the Strangest Friendship Ever Known!" this was the sole long-form work created by brothers Horace and Stacy Woodard, who'd already won two Academy Awards® for their short nature documentaries. The narrative/nonfiction hybrid lets us spend time with Chico,...Watch Movie
Editor
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Adventures of Chico
Billed as "A Tale of the Strangest Friendship Ever Known!" this was the sole long-form work created by brothers Horace and Stacy Woodard, who'd already won two Academy Awards® for their short nature documentaries. The narrative/nonfiction hybrid lets us spend time with Chico,...Watch Movie
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