Motion Painting No. 1

Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is a 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.

The film was created by applying oil paint on acrylic glass. Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months. In 1997, the film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000.^[1]

References

1. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

External links

• Motion Painting No. 1 at the Internet Movie Database
• Excerpts from Fischinger's writings about this film are at the Center for Visual Music's Fischinger Research Pages. See their Fischinger bibliography for many other texts.
• Fischinger Archive

Further References

• The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.
• The film itself can be purchased on CVM's Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films DVD
• William Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)