The dazzling color films Composition in Blue (1935) and American March (1941) are seen here in newly-restored prints that capture the vivid colors of the originals better than any previously available version. Volume II offers a fascinating overview of his career, from his first film in the early 1920s, the exotic and serene Wax Experiments (created by slicing away prepared blocks of wax, with color tints added), to one of his last films, the 1950s Muntz TV Commercial, painted in black-and-white as a television ad.

Fischinger alone, of the many who had used the form, continued solely to produce abstractions on film, to the point where his name became identified with the form. He left Germany in 1936 at the invitation of Paramount and went to Hollywood, where he was the initial inspiration for Walt Disney’s Fantasia, and where he continued to work in the abstract field both in painting and filmmaking until his death in 1967. 'Oskar Fischinger was the champion of absolute ideas in abstract experimental film.

München-Berlin Wanderung 1927 b/w silent 5’ Wax Experiments 1921-1926 color silent 9’ Notice: this title is out of print please refer to Oskar Fischinger - Ten FilmsĪ wide range of abstract films from the master of the genre, from advertisements for Muratti cigarettes and Muntz televisions to fragments of animated experiments. Notice: this title is out of print please refer to Oskar Fischinger - Ten Films He was cinema’s Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920’s in Germany, created exquisite “visual music” using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz.A wide range of abstract films from the master of the genre, from advertisements for Muratti cigarettes and Muntz televisions to fragments of animated experiments. * Preserved films, high definition digital transfers and digitally remastered audioĭecades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before “Fantasia” (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of “absolute” or nonobjective filmmaking.

* Home movies of Oskar, Elfriede and Hans Fischinger in the Berlin Studio, c. * Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests

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