Chronology of Color Music Films

1912, leopold survage, animated color film proposed ***

1919, viking eggeling, first purely abstract film ***

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 Whitney, yantra (hand drawn) ***

1961, John Whitney, catalog *** CCCCCCC

1961. JB, allures ***

1968, John W, permutation *** CCCC???

1968, 2001: a space odyssey stargate sequence *** CCCCCCC

1971, John W, matrix *** CCCCCCC

1974, Larry Cuba, first fig *** CCCCCCC

1974, laurie spiegel *** CCCCCCC

1975, John Whitney, arabesque *** CCCCCCC

<1980, JW book, digital harmony>

1985, Larry Cuba, calculated movements *** CCCCCCC