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An Optical Poem

03/05/1938

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0hr 7min

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Animation

,Music

STORY

A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" is the music. The shapes, all two-dimensional, are circles primarily, with some squares and rectangles, and a few triangles. The shapes move rhythmically to the music: receding from view or moving across the screen. Red circles on a blue background; light blue squares; white rectangles. Then, a red background of many circles with a few in the foreground. Red gives way to blue then to white. Shapes reappear as Liszt's themes re-occur. Then, with a few staccato notes and images, it's over.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

    Director

  • Oskar Fischinger

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

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Cast

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