LEADER 00000ngm 2200529Ma 4500 001 43993962 005 20000506 TAPE oclc9991: 0196 007 mr caaadmnartabac199810 008 000710m19391959xxu022 maeng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 000710 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080528 Modid: XRF 035 (PFA-FILM)257 035 GLADN50874390 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY 090 |b1612-01-2787 245 00 Films by Harry Smith|h[motion picture] /|c[filmmaker, Harry Smith] 246 3 Early abstractions 246 3 One-man show.|nNo. 1-5, 7, 10 246 3 Circular tensions 246 3 Mirror animations--excerpt 257 U.S. 260 [United States :|bHarry Smith,|c1939-195-?] 300 1 reel of 1 (807 ft.) (22 min.) :|bopt sd., col. ;|c16 mm. |3triacetate print. 500 Contains numbers 1-5, 7, and 10 from Smith's One-man show. 500 Title on film: Films by Harry Smith. Title Early abstractions supplied from can, leader, and Filmmakers' Coop catalog. 500 Music track added later (1965?). 500 The following title appears for 20 frames at the end of the sixth film: The investigations on which this film is based were made possible by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1950-51. 500 Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. 500 Also released as numbers 1-5, 7, and 10 of One-man show. No. 10 was also released with no. 11 as: Mirror animations. 500 No. 5 has title at beginning: III. Circular tensions. 500 Running time: 22:26. 500 No dates on film; dates supplied from film descriptions in Visionary film and other research. 505 0 [No. 1] (84 ft.) -- [No. 2] (79 ft.) -- [No. 3] (120 ft.) -- [No. 4] (79 ft.) -- [No. 5] (92 ft.) -- [No. 7] (199 ft.) -- [No. 10] (126 ft.). 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 510 4 Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary film. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978,|cp. 232-248 510 4 Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. Experimental animation. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988,|cp. 137-138 510 4 Sitney, P. Adams. "Harry Smith interview," Film culture reader. New York: Praeger, 1970,|cp. 260-261 520 [No. 1] Circles and anamorphic figures painted on film. [No. 2] Squares and orbs float across the screen. [No. 3] Rectangles form tic-tac-toe grids, then checkerboards, then become squares. [No. 4] This film is not animated, but is footage of real objects. The camera moves across lights, shot through a grid made by a window. [No. 5] Abstract forms reappear: a green square, red triangle and circle. Hollow circles move inside each other. [No. 7] Squares and circles float inside each other. A spiral appears inside a circle. In an instance of cel animation, stars explode. Circles eat themselves. Triangles attack the orbs, disappearing inside them. [No. 10] Smith switches to collage animation in this film. Objects that go in and out of the frame, at times dancing with each other, include skeletons, a magus, football, snake, sun, dolls, books, and magic symbols. 534 |pOriginally hand-painted on|e35 mm. stock.|pNo. 1 used corks, erasers, and other objects to make the circular images. No. 2 included the use of Kum Kleen gum dots. 562 Version with Beatles soundtrack. 590 PFA 1612-01-2787. |aCONDITION NOTE: Inspected: 07 Oct 1998; pink; leader; scratches; warped; Fair condition: color has turned pink; many scratches, especially noticable during light sections; slightly warped as comes off reel; sound level fluctuates; lacks head and tail leader; no splices (this is a continuous print); picture seems to be still quite solid CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/11/28; Very good condition; color has faded to pink with some green visible; very light scratches; slightly warped 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Animation.|2mim 655 7 Personal/independent films.|2mim 690 U.S. films. 700 1 Smith, Harry. 710 2 Beatles. 935 GLADN50874390 941 0 PFA 1612-01-2787. American Federation of the Arts purchased with the aid of funds from the NEA; logged in 20 May 1976 PFA. 946 PFA 1612-01-2787. Revised 2008/05/14 by pjs (945) 946 PFA 1612-01-2787. Written on head lab leader: Anthology Films - Early Abstractions. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 961 PFA 1612-01-2787.|bStored on 1200 ft. reel. 994 92|bCUY