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This drawing was used in the black and white 35mm film, made in Berlin. From Fischinger's famous Studies series, which screened worldwide as opening shorts before main features, in first run theatres. An excerpt from this film is on CVM's vimeo channel. With Certificate of Authenticity.

[about Studies 5 - 12] "Absolute graphic fims to music - soundfilm; produced in Berlin, Germany and distributed all over the world. To name the countries where these films were sold: Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal (South America - Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Chile) (North America - U.S.A., Canada), England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Japan, and Czlechoslovakia. - Oskar Fischinger, from "Account of artistic creations," unpublished typescript, n.d.

"This study remains the most complex, most stunning, and for the artist the favorite and most important of the black and white films...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

Fischinger artwork (c) Fischinger Trust. Purchase does not transfer copyright.

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