1936 Len Lye - "Rainbow Dance" (highlights)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2012
- Len Lye's work may look like contemporary vj wizardry, but was actually made in a time when full colour film was still a bit of a novelty. Disney had introduced Technicolor's three-color system with "Flowers and Trees" in 1932, but most movies were still shot in black and white.
After two abstract direct-to-film shorts which were painted or stencilled directly on the film strip in 1935, Len Lye abandoned total abstraction in 1936 with "Rainbow Dance" and the stop-motion narrative short "The Birth of the Robot". "Rainbow Dance" is a very colorful collage of treated live-action footage, artful backgrounds and direct-to-film animation effects.
The presented edit is set to music lifted of Lye's even more impressive next short "Trade Tattoo". - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
This is adorable. Thanks for uploading!
Well nice to know that no matter what time period your in there's always someone way ahead of time itself
This is impressive now even with computers. I can only imagine how mind blowing it must've been THREE YEARS BEFORE THE WIZARD OF OZ CAME OUT.
Damn this looks like something from the 60s.
I was literally thinking to myself had someone told me this film was from the ‘60s, I would’ve thought so since it would’ve been believable for that era compared to the ‘30s. Then I saw your comment.
My thoughts exactly, Len Lye was a time traveler for sure 😂 as if he skipped too the future too steal some new technology and sneak back too his time too make this.
Also reminds me of 1990s Nickelodeon bumpers
If I was shown this with no sound nor context, I would have mistaken this for a trippy 90s music video. Len Lye was ahead of his time!
amazing then and now...
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There was a BauHaus exhibit in my town and they showed quite a few films like this, though most were B&W. They're headier than much of the psychedelic stuff I've seen from the 60s. They even had a Mies Van Deroe chair from the 1920s looking very mid century. Gotta salute when an arteest is decades ahead of the curve.
Probably the first ever videoclip
No way this is from the 30s! Has that 60s psychedelic vibe!
I’m surprised as to how there’s little to no film grain considering that this was made in the 30s. I love this!
Update: Man, I wish I new how to do rotoscoping like this in Vegas Pro!
This man predicted MTV's 80s aethstetic
Beautiful film. This would have been shot on panchromatic film. Gasparcolor was a chromolytic print film. The monchrome film would have been printed through a primary colour filter into the Gasparcolor print film.Ilfochrome for still photographic film was based on the same process.
To make colour (live action)motion pictures, Bela Gaspar had a modified cine camera that shot at 72 fps through a blue/green/red colour filter wheel. The positive monochrome print with sucessive monichrome colour records ( as b&w shades of grey) was printed through a colour filter wheel onto the Gasparcolor print film. 3 monichrome cells printed into one Gasparcolor color cell. Thats why Gasparcolor was mainly used for animation. There was no issue with colour fringing, as motion was steady from each monochrome photograhpic image through the colour filter wheel. In live action there could be slight movement. Technicolor refused to allow their camera to be used with Gasparcolor.
wow it seems as if you were the one who made it.....must really know your stuff nice!
This was shot in black and white using three b/w records to represent the three primary colors, which were then superimposed onto Gasparcolor print film. The rainbows and mountains at the beginning were painted with varying shades of grey paint in order to create the desired colors.
Not sure if these guys did the original music for Len Lye's film, but the tune is called 'Tony's Wife' by Rico's Creole Band.
I wonder why TH-cam has taken it down. Apparently a copyright claim by REVOIR SARL. (?!) The film was made 80 years ago!
The film is owned by the General Post Office, Royal Mail, who has not licensed it for TH-cam. Re:Voir published and sells the Len Lye DVD.
I dig this! How is this from 1936? It looks like it was made in the 60s or 70s.
Len Lye is unique, always!
This was so lovely
This Music is from the Trade Tattoo 1937
Wow! Thanks for sharing this!
Amazing! Love this
Awesome Channel! Awesome short!
this is INCREDIBLE
This is some colorful and trippy shit for 1936
The Lecuona Band - Adios mi amor
Imagine if someone's ecliptic and saw this.
I can't find the original with the original soundtrack. can anyone help?
Well, it is colorful...
What the music did use?
It's too ahead of their time
Looks a bit like New Order's "Blue Monday" music video...
except they had a camera pointed at a tv so they could use its effects generator. see 1:12 for a shot of the tv
This scared the heck out of children
I mess with it
El maestro
The Lecuona Band
1936 NINETEEN THIRTY SIX 😯
They were doin apple ads in the 30's
**Epilepsy intensifies**
i hear some like fireworks i guess its so weird to watch
cool
io
これが84年前の映像なんだぜ？
Yes, in 2020 it's 84 years ago that Len Lye's film was published, see: www.imdb.com/title/tt0028156/reference
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vc é coreano,então,eu vou travar seu zap
gimme wtv theyre trippin on
Too new for 30s
How so? It seems that to have been received pretty well at the time, when avant garde was deemed hip rather than elitist or a hobby for the political left.
If I was shown this with no sound nor context, I would have mistaken this for a trippy 90s music video. Len Lye was ahead of his time!