Fiddle-de-dee (1947)
A film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
Genre : Music, Animation
Runtime : 3M
Director : Norman McLaren
Synopsis
A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker and blend. A Norman McLaren painting on film, translates sound into sight.
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