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John Halas -- A Memory of Moholy-Nagy
An amazing and partly animated documentary on the great artist Moholy-Nagy produced by John Halas in 1990.
"The Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy was a major propagandist for Abstraction and constructive functionalism in art and design. His exploration of light, space and dynamism, while it employed modern technology and materials, was nevertheless informed by a sense of intuition and even spiritual aspiration. In addition to making avant-garde films and documentaries between 1926 and 1935, he experimented in a wide variety of artistic disciplines: architecture, painting, graphic arts, photography, theater and fashion. Using archive footage, photographs, computer and hand-drawn animation sequences, this film surveys his prolific career."
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John Whitney demonstrates his analog computer
มุมมอง 41K12 ปีที่แล้ว
This sequence is an excerpt from a documentary called "Computers: Challenging Man's Supremacy".
Gary Hill - Happenstance (Part One of Many Parts) (1983)
มุมมอง 37K13 ปีที่แล้ว
The Rutt-Etra is an image synthesizer that produces live modulation of oscilloscopic forms. This special technique has enabled Gary Hill to give this quality of presence to the visual transformations of Happenstance. What actually takes place is produced there and then, like the crystallisation of thought: words, forms, images are all bound and unbound. The musical rhythm and rapidity of the li...
James Whitney - Variations on a Circle (1941-42)
มุมมอง 42K14 ปีที่แล้ว
The Whitney brothers were excited by the technical brilliance of Fischinger's films, but somewhat disturbed by his use of symphonic music, which seemed old-fashioned to them. John constructed an animation stand and other equipment in the apartment they shared in Pasadena. James designed geometric shapes on small index cards and created positive and negative stencils that could be painted or air...
John Whitney talks about his analog computer
มุมมอง 4.2K14 ปีที่แล้ว
John Whitney talks about his analog computer-device (source unknown, probably from the 1980s?).
John & James Whitney - "Five Film Exercises" Film 2-3 (1944)
มุมมอง 11K15 ปีที่แล้ว
The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. The eerie, sen...
John & James Whitney - "Five Film Exercises" Film 4 (1944)
มุมมอง 20K15 ปีที่แล้ว
The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. The eerie, sen...
John & James Whitney - "Five Film Exercises" Film 1 (1943)
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The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. The eerie, sen...

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  • @kaeltkottmir
    @kaeltkottmir 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 90s documentary video with their narrating style are so nostalgic to me 😄

  • @Chicken_Soy
    @Chicken_Soy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow

  • @DeathHags
    @DeathHags 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is sensational

  • @tectorgorch8698
    @tectorgorch8698 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The new Harry Smith biography is great.

  • @VTSGsRock
    @VTSGsRock 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't believe that this is 80 years old!

    • @darknightz2062
      @darknightz2062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Here I got one for you to decrypt: Miles Davis PHARAOH'S DANCE th-cam.com/video/2ZIqcq-OBeM/w-d-xo.html

  • @thinkingaboutart1116
    @thinkingaboutart1116 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Extraordinary. And to think they were close at the time to the artist Tony Smith (yes, the Tony Smith who became famous in the 1960s for large, black modular sculptures), who hung out with them and photographer Edmund Teske at Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in Hollywood.

  • @monkeytennis7477
    @monkeytennis7477 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the scratchy soundtrack 🎉 ASMR!

    • @rittytoonz2022
      @rittytoonz2022 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      these computer where serious drugs when they where invented in the 1940s

  • @AaronDarden
    @AaronDarden ปีที่แล้ว

    the audio is off by about 2 seconds

  • @spiralmoment
    @spiralmoment ปีที่แล้ว

    Great. Im off to find out more about how the sounds were produced.

  • @iLL.b
    @iLL.b ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @phil7
    @phil7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching analog computer with analog recording!

  • @TomChabassiere
    @TomChabassiere 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:25 : LOL the backward music.

  • @TomChabassiere
    @TomChabassiere 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:08 : Weird music EVER.

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think Disney animators were very impressed.

    • @norik9910
      @norik9910 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      May be because Disney thinks only about money first and not real Art ?

    • @idkkidkk2445
      @idkkidkk2445 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@norik9910 and tell me how tf is this art? i love avant-garde but this has no sense at all. the music is cool tho

  • @kennethbartholow2732
    @kennethbartholow2732 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im on L watching this, feels like my heads in a microwave

  • @dpbuff
    @dpbuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    30 years ahead of Kraftwerk

  • @atomlightstone
    @atomlightstone 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reminds me of earthbound

  • @BananaPhoPhilly
    @BananaPhoPhilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's just slightly irritating that the sound isn't synced in this recording :(

  • @god-faith9608
    @god-faith9608 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Check out this avant-garde film: th-cam.com/video/25cTtAR5wsA/w-d-xo.html

  • @mattsebastianjavierto7092
    @mattsebastianjavierto7092 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would name this Music For The Internet

  • @jessphipps5143
    @jessphipps5143 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this public domain?

    • @Carl17H
      @Carl17H 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      nope

  • @INADRM
    @INADRM 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is too cool

  • @uborkakovaszos3880
    @uborkakovaszos3880 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was amazing until the point where the narrator said "we woud like to show you how he woud have used a computer if it was available in his lifetime.

  • @peters972
    @peters972 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Silly music for amazing calculations.

    • @el0x
      @el0x 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Josh Swann I think it fits the animations surprisingly well

  • @orcho141
    @orcho141 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anybody been using these for raves?

    • @MoechtegernPimP
      @MoechtegernPimP 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are these animations running under public domain?

  • @laszlobabits94
    @laszlobabits94 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    He is an amazing man. Not only were his ideas about light and space amazing, but his paintings were truly amazing. Such a sad loss of a great Hungarian.

  • @NecroSluzz
    @NecroSluzz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much. I am researching this man for my Graphic Design course and this has proved very useful. Moholy-Nagy was a visionary in his field. Bravo.

  • @7karlheinz
    @7karlheinz 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks or uploading these films, Dan! Does anyone know why whoever owns the rights to the Five Film Exercises and all of James Whitney's films have never released them on any home video format (VHS, Laserdisc, DVD or BlueRay)???

    • @DanSpegel
      @DanSpegel 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dont´t know who owns the rights. Some of his films are really very hard to get a chance to see, which is a real shame...

  • @MrJoelLive
    @MrJoelLive 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    With my TH-cam channel, I'm working on bringing a similar artistic expression back but with a rather modern and current touch :) I was searching for inspiration and found that video. I didn't know John Whitney before. His work just blows me away!

    • @7karlheinz
      @7karlheinz ปีที่แล้ว

      His Brother James Whitney's films are even more mindblowing in my opinion.

  • @boimesa8190
    @boimesa8190 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    well if he does all the visuals... who made all the audio to his artworks??

    • @interwebzful
      @interwebzful 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      pretty sure that final audio isn't something mr. whitney would not have added himself

    • @RobinParmar
      @RobinParmar 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whitney trained in music as well as photography. He composed soundtracks for several of his films. For others he used composers such as Terry Riley (for "Matrix III"). The music in this video has been added for the documentary.

  • @SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn
    @SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Despite being made in 1941-42, it looks like the 70's to me...

    • @TheFate23
      @TheFate23 ปีที่แล้ว

      To me it's 1977 during the disco era.

  • @allegrahangen267
    @allegrahangen267 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does anyone know what this was filmed with? Looks like video tape but even the precursors to tape started later in the 50s....

    • @allegrahangen267
      @allegrahangen267 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      or maybe this is just a tape recording of the original...?

    • @thevirgohifi
      @thevirgohifi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      see above: "These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. "

    • @2idiot2animate28
      @2idiot2animate28 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was shot on film.... But WE are watching a vhs print

  • @Jeffrey314159
    @Jeffrey314159 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The narrator of this film claims that these 'analog computing machines' are responsible for creating the 'Star Gate' effects in 2001 Space Odyssey. What about controlling the movement of the cameras?

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some of the spfx demonstrated in this video are like those used in Star Trek: The Motion Picture from 1979. Another example is in a 1970's film: UFO Target Earth

    • @RobinParmar
      @RobinParmar 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The narrator is not quite correct. The slit-screen technique was also invented by John Whitney Sr. but is not the machine shown. Further, Whitney did not work on "2001"... his idea was basically stolen after he sent Kubrick a demo.

    • @circusitch
      @circusitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bob Abel did a lot of that kind of work. He worked with Whitney and helped develop the slit scan technique.

    • @hfuy8005
      @hfuy8005 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@circusitch Is all of what's shown here even analog? Whitney's lines were plotted on some IBM workstation as I recall.

    • @circusitch
      @circusitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hfuy8005 From what I know, it was just filmed off of a cathode ray tube, CRT.

  • @morganfisherart
    @morganfisherart 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like a great doc, but after trying it for 2 minutes, I think I'll wait for a higher-res version. 240 is a little low for a video on art.

    • @rr7firefly
      @rr7firefly 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +morganfisherart -- I see I am not the only one who thinks this. Considering how Moholy-Nagy worked in a visual medium, having a 240p video showing his work is a real disappointment. It's unfair to the genius of this great man.

  • @wadeekaji
    @wadeekaji 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you John Halas to create this animation video for us and Thank you Dan Spegel for sharing this.

  • @pablogaracenas
    @pablogaracenas 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    ¡ Very good contribution to find new sounds and show ideas for paradigm shifts

  • @ufoengines
    @ufoengines 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I ran across this old digital computer patent 3190554 that uses compressed air to run the logic gates instead of electricity. Was such a computer ever built and used for anything? Could a 3d printer be used to make such a computer today?

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you talking about a digital computer based on pneumatic-relay-logic, or a fluidic binary system?

    • @ufoengines
      @ufoengines 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess so. I read about this kid Horton Billy Mitchusson Patent 3107850 that came up with this digital air computer idea in the 1960's and if you check out the patent, he gave the idea to the world . ( Electronic digital made the idea a non starter even then I suppose.) However if you check the links from the patent everybody was giving the idea a look see. I like the idea that if Babbage had gone this way he could have had the pipe organ guys make his Analytic Engine for him and Lady Ada would have invented COBOL. Now I'm checking around to see if anybody is using Brush Bots to demonstrate Collision Based Computing. The kids have got to dig that!

    • @francismassen
      @francismassen 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I built for my pseudo-PhD in ~1971 a bottle filling machine using only fluidic elements (some of which which were self made), where compressed air steered the fluid (=water) and fluidic elements made the digital part (very elemental!).

    • @Talmurid
      @Talmurid 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know this comment thread is relatively old, but I believe you’re talking about a gas flow computer.

    • @EbayUsedGoods
      @EbayUsedGoods ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ufoengines NYUFO you gotta see the Electric Shoes sketch on snl, I got a playlist of related videos with the same title

  • @dragicapetrovic9470
    @dragicapetrovic9470 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy Birthday László Moholy-Nagy ~ <3 ~ :D:P

  • @andre1onate
    @andre1onate 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    aahhh... how innocent the pre-photoshop time :)

    • @theprstc
      @theprstc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hasn't got absolutely anything to do with photoshop, not even remotely. Both involve "computers" and output images but so does MRI...

  • @yaboimaxwell9031
    @yaboimaxwell9031 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gosh, that 16 millimeter film.

  • @7karlheinz
    @7karlheinz 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Historic and unique - pendulums creating optical sound electronic music!

  • @sebdos
    @sebdos 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    wanna see the whole thing !

  • @RobertPearson777
    @RobertPearson777 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    People should make their own documentaries on their favorite obscure historical figures....there is so much digital info online now, just need a good naration over it.

  • @GertrudeMyrtle
    @GertrudeMyrtle 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    ♥ it.

  • @kalingzeye
    @kalingzeye 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing. ♥

  • @creakiness
    @creakiness 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is the thing that we needed to see

  • @creakiness
    @creakiness 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is it

  • @Preservedenton
    @Preservedenton 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great thank you for posting.

  • @voiceoftreason1760
    @voiceoftreason1760 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a visionary

  • @ultort
    @ultort 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is it possible to watch the full documentary ?