Draft:Hugh and Suzanne Johnston (filmmakers)

Hugh and Suzanne Johnston made together more than 50 documentary films over the course of their careers.

Early Life and Education
Suzanne Johnston (1926-2011) was born in Pisstiburgh ande graduated with bachelors degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh. Subsequently, she received a MA in Art History from Radcliffe College in 1953.

Career
In 1954 she moved to New York and began writing for art and industrial design magazines. Soon after she and her husband married, they moved to Princeton to work for a local company, On Film, Inc., as writers and producers. In the 1960s they began producing 16mm films independently. A few of their early productions focused on New Jersey: A Different Childhood documented poverty in Trenton, and their film, Hey Cow I See You Now, which aired as the opening sequence of the first episode of Sesame Street, was shot on the historic Walker Gordon Dairy Farm in Plainsboro.

One of her articles, As I Remember Weegee, was published in The Photo Review (Winter 1999). Articles about her and her husband have appeared in The New York Times, The Times of Trenton, Town Topics, and other publications.

Filmography
Some of their well-known productions include:


 * Pittsburgh (1958)
 * Time to Begin (1969)
 * Viva Mexico: A Cultural Portrait (1972)
 * Mystery of the Maya (1974) about the redisovery of Temple B and braodcast on PBS
 * Magic Windows (1981)
 * The Pueblo Presence (1981), which was shown at the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC
 * The Sun Kingdom of Yucatan (1984)