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Dada (1936)
Directed by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Animation · 2m
A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York apartment. Paramount apparently never got round to including the filmmakers in any newsreel, but their own film survived in the Bute-Nemeth Archive. (weirdwildrealm.com) To the rhythm of music that sounds a bit like a Busby Berkeley tune, lines and circles appear against a black background. Then triangles, in groups. Black and white squares move in tandem. Sparkling forms turn in kaleidoscopic patterns. Then cubes appear, white against the background, bouncing; a yin and yang rotate a few times before the film ends with an quick burst of scattering light.
Crew
- Director
- Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Details
- Release date
- 1936-06-17
- Runtime
- 2m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America