Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. An optical poem / Cineric Inc. presents ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Oskar Fischinger.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Fischinger, Oskar, 1900-1967, producer.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Genre:

Experimental films.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 minutes)

Other Title:

Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film 1893-1941

Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1937.

Language Note:

Intertitles in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020).

"Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941".

Contains:

Music: Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Rhapsodies hongroises. No 2; arranged.

OCLC:

1191031783

Publisher Number:

ASP5053401/marc