Motion Painting No. 1

Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is a short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048.[1]

The film was created by applying oil paint on acrylic glass. Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months. In 1997, the film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2] The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights.[3]

References
  1. MichaelBarrier.com -- Capsules: Oskar Fischinger's Motion Painting No. 1
  2. Librarian of Congress Names 25 New Films to National Film Registry
  3. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

Further reading
  • The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • William Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)


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