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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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An Optical Poem (1938)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.