Study No. 8
(1931)- original title: Studie Nr. 8 by Oskar Fischinger. This study remains the most complex, most stunning, and for the artist the favorite and most important of the black and white films.
"... Oskar Fischinger did not have enough money to buy the rights for the second half of Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Despite the lack of the finished ending of the music, this study remains the most complex, most stunning, and for the artist the favorite and most important of the black and white films. (...)
Oskar Fischinger makes no attempt to tell Goethe's story of the magician's helper (Disney was to do that ten years later) but instead he uses the textures and movements of the sounds themselves as the jumping off point for creating an especially rich world in which a multiplicity of forms and movements perform in a deep environment." (Dr. William Moritz, Film Culture)
Source: Canyon Cinema