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Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)

Motion Painting No. 1 poster
Directed by
Oskar Fischinger
Genre
abstract animation film
Country
United States
Runtime
11 min
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short animated film sets moving abstract shapes and colors to a Bach concerto. The images shift and flow in time with the music.

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What happens

Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is an independent 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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