Early Abstractions (1939)
- Directed by
- Harry Everett Smith
- Genre
- compilation film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 23 min
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 21 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a collection of seven short abstract animated films made over 17 years. The films use shifting colors, shapes, and patterns set to music. They are meant to be watched as moving paintings.
abstractexperimentalmeditativecolorfulrhythmichypnoticdreamlikeplayful
What happens
Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10, while the missing Numbers 8 and 9 are presumed to have been lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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