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Motion Painting No. 1

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'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'.[http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Capsules/Fischinger/fischinger_capsule.htm MichaelBarrier.com -- Capsules: Oskar Fischinger's Motion Painting No. 1]

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".[https://web.archive.org/web/20090811151201/http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1997/97-200.html Librarian of Congress Names 25 New Films to National Film Registry] The Academy Film Archive preserved 'Motion Painting No. 1' in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights.

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* The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.

* William Moritz, 'Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger' (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)


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