Unto Us A Child Is Born

This is a USC film school student film made by Bill Morgan and Jerry Strawbridge in 1966. It shows pictures of childhood animated to the music "Unto Us A Child is Born" from Handel's "Messiah."

This technique of animating still photographs is called "kinestasis" (or "kine" for short), a word which means moving (kine) stills (stasis).

It was made on Jerry Strawbridge's homemade animation stand. For me (Bill Morgan) it was a dream come true as I had long dreamed of combining photographs with classical music.

Other examples of my kinestasis works can be see at:

http://theawaremind.com/videos/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• handel
• messiah
• student
• film
• usc
• school
• kinestasis
• billym
• jerry
• strawbridge
• classical
• music

[Nicecatholicgirl]

Powerful!

[janithw]

too jerky

[anagnosi]

I hope some great artists will try to improve this excellent work, or take it as an inspiration. I wish to see it on TV, cinema, dvd (better image analysis and sound quality).

[murph6370882]

Bravo

[Curlyjoe71]

Outstanding, inspiring.

[JUACASP]

Imágenes de una sensibilidad considerable, adornadas con una de las músicas más maravillosas que puedas escuchar. Si existe el cielo, nos recibirán con una música así

[dramaticdragon13]

beautiful. i love it.