Fischinger Studio Movies

An experiment into what the director termed 'colour rhythm'.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

Dancing Lines, also called Study No. 2, is a piece of abstract animation. White lines dance upon a black background.

Muratti was a German brand of cigarettes. Fischinger transforms bunches of standing cigarettes into things that resemble human beings. At first they walk daintily around packages of Muratti tins. Gradually as the film progresses their motions become more graceful, as they do "slides" and other...

An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

Short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Fischinger ad for Muratti cigarettes.