Monday, 28 June 2021

Watch the wonderful and weird Rainbow Dance, an experimental animated film from 1936

In 1836, animation pioneer and kinetic sculptor Len Lye created "Rainbow Dance," a beautiful and strange animated film. Watch excerpts below. To create the wonderfully vibrant and surreal color effects, Lye used then-state-of-the-art Gasparcolor film, developed in 1933 by Hungarian chemist Béla Gáspár who was working in Berlin at the time. — Read the rest