Cover image for An Optical Poem [digital video].
Title:
An Optical Poem [digital video].
Publication Date:
1938

2023
Publication Information:
Filmmakers Showcase, 1938.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
35mm 1.33:1 color sound, 7:02 minutes; production assistance John Cage; music_Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2_by Franz Liszt; courtesy Warner Bros.,Turner Entertainment Co. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt's rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where "the keen sensation of depth becomes a conceptual part of the action, with the circles that rotate around each other revealed as cosmic figures that could be either microscopic cells or stellar configurations(William Moritz)." Sadly this was the only Fischinger film commissioned and released by a major Hollywood studio.
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Title from title frames.

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In Process Record.
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Electronic Access:
Access immediately on Kanopy
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