
After viewing ABC in Sound, I was seeking out similar films when I came across Oskar Fischinger’s 1938 experimental piece An Optical Poem. The film aims to give music a visual form and can be seen as an example of rhythmic editing/animation in time with a piece of music. The intricate animation presents these cut out shapes dancing together in perfect time, and I find it very impressive that he achieved such rhythmic perfection given the limited stop motion animation approach that he was using. I fully believe that Fischinger achieved his goal in presenting expressive music in visual form.