Fuji

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1974

Creator: [filmmaker,] Robert Breer.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Breer, Robert.

Description: Animation.; No title on film; title supplied from leader and can.; Running time: 08:36.; Copyright date on film: 1974, Robert Breer.; PFA 1604-01-2682. Restricted: Not for research use.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. Experimental animation. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo, 1988, p. 131; Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Film: the front line, 1983. Denver: Arden, 1983, p. 64-65; A rotoscope-animation rendition of a train journey past Mt. Fuji in Japan. The film begins with sound only: the bells of a train. For a brief moment, live footage of a person seated on the train with the passing landscape as backdrop is seen. As the sound of the train moving begins, outlined rotoscope images of a train conductor walking down the aisles appears. Mt. Fuji is seen outside the window. These images are then elaborated on away from the rotoscope, creating almost abstract geometric forms that frequently overlap and change colors. At the end, the live action footage of the person on the train reappears.; PFA 1604-01-2682. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 14 Nov 1992; scratches; warped; Very good condition: light scratches; print slightly warped; sprockets noisy; projectionist's cue tape is in the wrong spot: it should be placed before the sound begins, not before the picture

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE