A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting.

Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.

Credits

Norman McLaren (1914–1987); Benton Jackson; Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901); National Film Board of Canada

Complete catalog record
Uses animation to show the mood and atmosphere of a 19th century painting, Isle of the Dead, by Arnold Brechlin. The spectral island is brought mysteriously to life in candle-light and then fades again into the darkness.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, length, format, sound
  2. BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, credits
  3. 16mm Filmography editors — creator, description, catalog record