1935-1937 Len Lye - "Kaleidoscope" + "A Colour Box" + "Colour Flight" (highlights mix)

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@RedHotHead1110 4 жыл бұрын

This short is one of the inspirations for the opening credits for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

@JoesAnimationHub 6 жыл бұрын

just watched this on a "Secrets of British Animation" programme on BBC 4, and I learnt that if you pause on some of the frames you can see Lye's fingerprints where he applied the paint on the film.

@kaitlynanimationz 4 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@kellywalker1664 2 жыл бұрын

Using advertising material in the most unadvertising way possible. I like it.

@EJosey 9 ай бұрын

wow! it's insane to know this was made entirely in the 2.2 editor. and with only 47 objects! hope to see this verified soon

@danielslade9485 4 жыл бұрын

So much creativity from someone down under.

@chocoblocko9 9 ай бұрын

the memory level

@ShadowsOnTheScreen 8 жыл бұрын

This was very cool, and the music really added to it.

@sambaker3233 9 жыл бұрын

classic new Zealand art

@anautisticpersonxd3324 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@Fete_Fatale 4 жыл бұрын

I first saw a Len Lye show at a Wellington Film Society night way back in the early 1980s. This, and "Free Radicals" later inspired me to make derivative pieces in Super8 some years later ... Len's always been treasured in NZ

@m3rcur1u5 7 жыл бұрын

No 4K? COME ON!

@haribrooker 8 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know whether this wonderful music is in the public domain/ has a creative commons license? Thank you.

@Caslon159 6 жыл бұрын

The music is by Don Barreto and his Cuban orchestra, but the musical style is from the French Caribbean (Martinique and Guadeloupe). Both this band and the Lecuonal Cuban Boys were big hits in the Paris nightclubs in the 1930s (all the recordings were made in Paris.).

@offtheair2657 7 жыл бұрын

"Famous For Fine Flavour- Churchman's Cigarettes" at 1:56, right after the cigarette dance. Possible early subliminal advertising, or just product placement?

@magicalmotionmuseum 7 жыл бұрын

As explained in the description: many of Len Lye's films were actually some sort of advertisements, or sponsored art, or something in between. "A Colour Box" promoted "cheaper parcel post" for the British General Post Office, "Kaleidoscope" was sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Company of India and "Colour Flight" was sponsored by Imperial Airways. Some sponsored messages are left out of this edit, but in the original films they are usually quite nicely integrated without spoiling the beauty of Lye's work: it seems like he found some inspiration for the films in whatever product or service was to be sponsored and then could get totally creative, while his employers/sponsors seem to have had plenty of appreciation for his more abstract and artful approach.

@Wolfii_TM 5 жыл бұрын

@@magicalmotionmuseum To add to this, Len Lye made an experimental film called "Rythm" in 1957 which featured films of factory workers in the Ford motor company, it actually received an award for the most creative commercial during one of the first animation film festivals in Europe. However, the Ford motor company marketing campaign turned down the film for advertising.