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Duration: 2:00

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Motion Graphics Inc.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Whitney, John.

Description: Animation.; Running time: 06:58.; Copyright date on film: 1961, Motion Graphics, Inc.; The film begins with music. The film proper begins at approximately 5 ft., after the Museum of Modern Art Film Library logo appears.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. Experimental animation, p. 180; Youngblood, Gene. Expanded cinema, p. 210-213; Curtis, David. Experimental cinema, p. 57; Analog computer-generated pointillistic squares, spirals, and circles appear and merge together while electronic music is heard on the soundtrack.; PFA 1604-01-1075. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 19 Sept 1992; pink, faded, scratches, warped, leader; Poor condition: many scratches at head, but they improve by end of the print; no splices; color poor: pink and faded (in last inspection of 21 Feb 1989, color was noted as very good); tape gum at 252 ft.; print is slightly warped, but no vinegar smell; print needs longer head and tail leaders

Complete Record: A kaleidoscopic film which begins with the film’s title, followed by the date which shift, spiral, and multiply into abstract patterns in motions that will be repeated and modified throughout the rest of the film. The patterns become increasingly complex involving shapes, rings and dots, and including more color variation and hypnotic rhythms that become increasingly hard to anticipate.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE