Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 independentEnchanted Drawings - Google Books (pgs.286-293) 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.MichaelBarrier.com -- Capsules: Oskar Fischinger's Motion Painting No. 1
Production The film was created by applying oil paint on Plexiglas.MoMA Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months.
Legacy In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".Librarian of Congress Names 25 New Films to National Film Registry The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights.
References
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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