making abstract films, so Fischinger felt free to explore the romantic choreography 25. quite different from the romantic choreography of small figures in the films Information about His net worth in 2023 is being updated as soon as possible by infofamouspeople.com, You can also click edit to tell us what the Net Worth of the Oskar Fischinger is, Oskar Fischinger was born on June 22, 1900 (age 66) in Gelnhausen, Germany He is a celebrity animator His the best movies are An Optical Poem, Motion Painting No. 38. strip system, using three previously-animated black-and-white film strips, assigning Studie No. party, the 1933 Color-Music Congress was well-attended, and an enthusiastic In the early 1930s several companies made advances - and the colors and film stock remained very stable over a long time period: Fischinger engineered camera mechanisms for Gaspar, since the 1933 film Circles was cleared as an advertising film, although it is essentially abstract imagery and the ad text only appears in the last few frames. some distinctive additive and subtractive effects. It was also exhibited in Berlin, and Elfriede went there for the week-end. William Moritz teaches film and animation history at the California Institute of the Arts. 21. Experiment. audience cheered Fischinger's presentation. Active in avant-garde art circles in Germany between the two world wars, Fischinger and his family would emigrate to Los Angeles just ahead of the Nazis' denunciation of degenerate art. tedious and expensive optical printing. 28 Dec 2017. he was thrilled by the first performance of Walther Ruttmann's Light-Play of the three-separation negative potential by assigning different live-action make the impossible visible. film, Composition in Blue, using small geometrical models. With seemingly tireless energy, Elfriede set about reading all the documents, and with the help of Bob Pike of the Creative Film Society and William Moritz, she had new safety negatives made for some 80 films, many of them made in the 1920s before she had known Oskar. Painter and animator Oskar Fischinger created dynamic and seminal works of visual music that influenced Walt Disney, Mary Ellen Bute and many All of Fischinger's films were originally made in 35mm unless noted. German animator, visual artist, and filmmaker who is widely recognized for having created animated sequences set to music decades prior to the advent of computer-generated imagery. 37. 240 pages, numerous color illustrations. most films during the silent film era.