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No. 2: Message From the Sun (1947)
Directed by Harry Smith
Animation · 2m
Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 2:15 or 10 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's Algo Bueno. This film "takes place either inside the sun or in... Switzerland" according to Smith. To produce this film he used a technique that involved cutting stickers of the type used to reinforce the holes in 3-ring binder paper. These were applied to 16 mm movie film and used like a stencil. Layers of vaseline and paint were used to color each frame in this manner. The effect is hypnotic, psychedelic and is something like a visual music.
Crew
- Director
- Harry Smith
Details
- Release date
- 1947-10-24
- Runtime
- 2m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America