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TITLE: EARLY ABSTRACTIONS
CAST:
DIRECTOR: Smith, Harry
LENGTH: 22 min.
COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color
RELEASE_DATE: 1941-1957
GENRE_MAIN: Animation
GENRE_SECOND: Alchemy
GENRE_THIRD: Avant Garde
COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: U.S.
LANGUAGE: English
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SOUNDTRACK: Sound
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RIGHTS_TV: TV
AVAILABILITY_DATE: Current
TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
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SYNOPSIS: "For thirty years Harry Smith worked on these movies, secretly, like an alchemist, and he worked out his own formulas and mixtures to produce these fantastic images. You can watch them for motion - Harry Smith's films never stop moving; or you can watch them for hidden and symbolic meanings, alchemic signs." Jonas Mekas, Village Voice No. 1: Hand-drawn animation of dirty shapes - the history of the geologic period reduced to orgasm length. No. 2: Batiked animation, etc. etc. The action takes place either inside the sun or in Zurich, Switzerland. No. 3: Batiked animation made of dead squares, the most complex hand-drawn film imaginable. No. 4: Black and white abstractions of dots and grillworks made in a single night. No. 5: Color abstractions. Homage to Oscar Fischinger - a sequel to No. 4. No. 7: Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork and triangles with an interlude concerning an experiment. No. 10: An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballa in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Aquaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum.

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