Oskar Fischinger

• Born in Germany
• filming wax images on glass – similar vine lottie’s prince achmed
• walked to berlin
• open to working in advertising which gave him access to thing he would never get to do by himself
• film called circles advertisement to cigarettes
• moves to the us in 1936/ worked with mgm and paramount disney
• FANTASIA (1940) – exploring line and colour and shape – left the production but was inspired by his concepts
• Radio Dynamics (1942) -exploring, colour,shape again- to create a significant diversity in what each viewer imagines
• felt that to many of Disney let the music be the dominant part of the animation so in retaliation he made this film without music (an opposite of mickymousing) – different from the silent film era where there were often still physical complement
• Motion Painting No1 (1947) – explore the relationship between visual and sound and prioritizing the visual. – 9 months to make. – made it without video playback – avoiding following the music
• Guggenheim foundation rejection
• More often than not people are invested in the film and are actually watching
• lesson on the dynamic absence of sound

Loving Vincent (2017) – emulating van gogh straight

Len Lye

• moved to London in 1926
• General post office film unit
• A colour box (1925) – strip of film painted directly and makes the same illusion of motion

Mary Ellen Bute

• Pioneer figure
• worked in new york
• played in movie theaters before
• Tarantella(1940) – “A musical ballet”
• Abstronic (1952) – first example of electronically generated animation. – using technology for not iis initial prepose.

Norman McLaren and the national fil Board of Canada