1936 Len Lye – „Rainbow Dance“ (highlights) – magical media museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHN9IHGQxk8

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.

More pictures from New Plymouth. Playing around with the fun-house mirror exterior of the Len Lye Centre.

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A very long shot here…

Can you identify the location (state and/or city) of the #Chrysler plant of #LenLye's groundbreaking (and sadly rejected) TV commercial Rhythm (1957)? I'm guessing #Detroit…?

Here (https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=acZgomt5A2I) the short giving you an idea of the plant. It appears to be a final assembly line, no stamping here. The exterior shots are at the start of the #film. Blink and you miss it.

More in the alt. The punch holes are deliberate.

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