Motion Painting No. 1

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Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 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. It is a film of a painting (oil on acrylic glass); Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry.

[edit] External Links

• Excerpts from Fischinger's writings about this film are at the Center for Visual Music's Fischinger Research Pages
• Fischinger Archive

[edit] Further References

• The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.
• The film itself can be seen on CVM's Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films DVD