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UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE, An Optical Poem
directed by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967; produced by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 8 mins
VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. 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...
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directed by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967; produced by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 8 mins
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VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. 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, wit...
VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. 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. —BRUCE POSNER Oskar Fischinger, born in Germany, was trained as a musician and engineer but became a supreme figure among artists in search of the absolute. Fischinger’s films draw parallels between music and visual movement, creating some of the most precise and beautiful amalgams of sound and image cinema has ever known. —R. BRUCE ELDER 35mm 1.37:1 color sound 7:03 minutes. Production: MGM
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Field of Study
American Film
Content Type
Animation
Contributor
Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Author / Creator
Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967
Date Published / Released
1937
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Series
UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE
Topic / Theme
Animation, Stop-motion animation, Animated films
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UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE, Spook Sport
directed by Mary Ellen Bute, 1906-1983, Ted Nemeth, 1911-1986 and Norman McLaren, 1914-1987; produced by Ted Nemeth Studios, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1939), 9 mins,
Source: www.imdb.com
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VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Animated by McLaren, utilizing his adroit ink-on-film technique, Bute’s film visualizes Saint Säen’s music. It features colored globes, ellipses, and triangles that move ghost-like over mo...
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directed by Mary Ellen Bute, 1906-1983, Ted Nemeth, 1911-1986 and Norman McLaren, 1914-1987; produced by Ted Nemeth Studios, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1939), 9 mins,
Source: www.imdb.com
Source: www.imdb.com
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VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Animated by McLaren, utilizing his adroit ink-on-film technique, Bute’s film visualizes Saint Säen’s music. It features colored globes, ellipses, and triangles that move ghost-like over monochromatic backgrounds, communicating the notion of spirits rising from a graveyard. Commercially Bute’s most successful animation,...
VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Animated by McLaren, utilizing his adroit ink-on-film technique, Bute’s film visualizes Saint Säen’s music. It features colored globes, ellipses, and triangles that move ghost-like over monochromatic backgrounds, communicating the notion of spirits rising from a graveyard. Commercially Bute’s most successful animation, it ran for months at Radio City Music Hall. —JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK Infatuated with the new non-objective paintings of Kandinsky and others, Texas debutante Mary Ellen Bute devoted twenty years (1932-1952) to creating thirteen abstract motion pictures in black-and-white and color, with familiar classical music accompaniments. Many were shown at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. — CECILE STARRAt the outbreak of World War II, Norman McLaren left London for New York, where he remained over a year before joining the National Film Board of Canada and becoming a world leader in experimental animation. Almost destitute in New York, McLaren worked briefly for the Guggenheim Museum and for animator Mary Ellen Bute. —CECILE STARRBefore producing and filming Bute’s short abstract films (1931-1953), Ted Nemeth learned his craft creating special effects for feature film “trailers.” As head of his own New York studio, founded in 1940 (the year Bute and he were married), he made documentaries, commercials, and short subjects, two of which were Academy Award nominees. —ARAM BOYAJIAN 35mm 1.37:1 color sound 7:35 minutes. Production: Ted Nemeth Studios
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Film
Content Type
Animation
Contributor
Ted Nemeth Studios
Author / Creator
Mary Ellen Bute, 1906-1983, Ted Nemeth, 1911-1986, Norman McLaren, 1914-1987
Date Published / Released
1939
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Series
UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE
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