vis-music-films.txt, cr 24 jan 2008 by rha on thales2

Chronology of visual music films 
(*** items from vis-music-chrono.txt)

	1912, "visual music" term coined by roger fry
	1912, leopold survage, animated color film proposed
1919, viking eggeling, first purely abstract film ***
1920, hans richter, animated films ***
1920, walter ruttman and oskar fischinger, abstract animation films ***
1921, walter ruttman, films shown in frankfort ***
1927-31, oskar fishinger films shown worldwide ***
1934, mary ellen bute, animated films ***
1939, John and James Whitney, Twenty-Four Variations, their first abstract film ***
1941, Harry Smith, early animated films, images batiked directly onto film *** 
1953, jordan belson, mandala ***
1957, James W, yantra (hand drawn) ***
1961, john whitney, catalog ***
1961. JB, allures ***
1968, John W, permutation ***
1968, 2001: a space odyssey stargate sequence ***
1971, John W, matrix ***
1974, Larry Cuba, first fig ***
1974, laurie spiegel ***
1975, John W, arabesque ***
	1980, JW book, digital harmony
1985, Larry Cuba, calculated movements ***

refs
William Moritz, The dream of color music, and the machines that made it possible
	http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/moritz2.1.html
William Moritz, absolute fillm, 1999
	http://iotacenter.org/visualmusic/articles/moritz/absolute
Rhythmic Light, http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/timeline.html

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