Obituaries
Obit: George C. Stoney, 96
Documentarian worked with Patchogue's Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center.
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Documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney, who was honored in Patchogue in 2011 by , passed away Thursday in Manhattan at age 96 reports the New York Times.
According to the report, Stoney taught filmmaking at New York University from 1970 through to the last year of his life.
The Patchogue media arts center named their documentary film program after Stoney at a ceremony in 2011 at .
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