Synopsis
An experimental computer animation film series from John & James Whitney.
(imdb)

7.45MB | 2m 25s | 384×2886 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6CAF60FE5668001/Film_Exercises_2-3_(John_Whitney_&_James_Whitney,1944).mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/a35245ddbc3ff/Film_Exercises_2-3_%28John_Whitney___James_Whitney%2C1944%29.mp4

Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:None

The post John Whitney & James Whitney – Film Exercises 2-3 (1944) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is more condensed, and finally used in reverse to conclude the film.

The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. The eerie, sensuous neon glow of these forms is paralleled by pioneer electronic music sound scores composed by the brothers using a pendulum device to write sounds directly on the film’s soundtrack area, with precisely controlled calibrations. At that time, before the perfection of recording tape, these sounds – with exotic “pure” tone qualities, mathematically even chromatic glissandos and reverberating pulsations – were truly revolutionary and shocking. The brothers won a Grand Prize at the 1949 Brussels Experimental Film Competition for the Film Exercises.

16MB | 4m 38s | 384×288 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E5BDBCA64C0BF01/Film_Exercise_1_(John_Whitney_&_James_Whitney,1943).mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/869fd2df0f299/Film_Exercise_1_%28John_Whitney___James_Whitney%2C1943%29.mp4

Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:None

The post John Whitney & James Whitney – Film Exercise #1 (1943) first appeared on Cinema of the World.