Harry Smith Movies

  • 1980
    No. 19

    No. 19

    No. 19

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    Film No. 19 US, 1980, 35mm, 12.5 min.

    No. 19
  • 1947
    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

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    Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 2:15 or 10 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's...

    No. 2: Message From the Sun
  • 1951
    No. 7: Color Study

    No. 7: Color Study

    No. 7: Color Study

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    16 mm, color, silent, 5:25 or 15 min. "Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles...

    No. 7: Color Study
  • 1954
    No. 9

    No. 9

    No. 9

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    16 mm, color, 10 min. Untraced collage.

    No. 9
  • 1947
    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

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    Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 3:20 or 10 min. Reportedly cut down from about 30 min. Initially intended to be screened with...

    No. 3: Interwoven
  • 1965
    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

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    16 mm, color, silent, 10 min. Animation of Seminole patchwork.

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film
  • 1965
    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

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    “Superimposed photographs of Mr. Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko, Oklahoma–with Cognate...

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

    No. 11: Mirror Animations