Kreise (1933-34)
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Kreise (English title Circles) (Oskar Fischinger, GER 1933-34) Oskar Fischinger’s own nitrate print.
Oskar Fischinger Research Pages of the Center for Visual Music.
Credit: Library of Congress, (c) Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Photographs of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Alt, Dirk (2011): “Der Farbfilm marschiert!” Frühe Farbfilmverfahren und NS-Propaganda 1933-1945. München: Belleville, on p. 99. (in German) View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Moritz, William (2004): Optical Poetry. The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, on p. 220. View Quote
Orosz, Márton (2012): The Hidden Network of the Avant-Garde. Der farbige Werbefilm als eine zentraleuropäische Erfindung? In: Sascha Bru et al.: Regarding the Popular. Modernism, the Avant-garde and High and Low Culture. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. (in German)
Strusková, Eva (2013): The Dodals. Pioneers of Czech Animation. Prague: The National Film Archive. [About the Czech avant-garde animators Irena Dodalová and Karel Dodal, see more information about the book here.]