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Synchromy No. 4: Escape (Mary Ellen Bute - 1938)

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Uploaded by on Mar 17, 2008

First color film... w/ Bach's Toccata before WD and crew had a go at it.

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  • she deserved so much more credit for her work..

  • hard to believe this was made in 1938.

    It looks almost as thought it was

    made 20-30 years later.

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  • @horsesareok

    exactly, yes kandinsky did write about these things. I always thought highly of disney for fantasia but now i dont.. How tense to have lived during his times, and for Steiner too

  • This is not the first colour film. There were experimental films in the 1890s and commercial colour musicals around 1930.

  • It's great what you find on YouTube, innit?

  • I have heard this song before in the original Fantasia film by Disney. Both this film and Fantasia were far ahead of their tme.

  • I have heard this song before in the original Fantasia film by Disney.

  • I assume she's read Kandinsky. Great film.

  • What did I just watch?!

    I have never seen anything like this from its time. From the color film to the graphics, the motion and syncopation. Stunning. Majorly impressive.

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