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RAINBOW DANCE

Rights Information
Year
1936
Reference
F2147
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1936
Reference
F2147
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
United Kingdom
Categories
Short
Duration
0:03:57
Production company
GPO Film Unit
Credits
Director: Len Lye
Producer: Basil Wright
Producer: Alberto Cavalcanti
Camera: Frank Jones
Music: Rico's Creole Band
Sound: Jack Ellit
Dancer: Rupert Doone

Lye transformed this original black & white footage into a film of complex colour patterns by manipulating the three matrices of the Gasparcolor system. A man appears as a silhouette performing against stylised backgrounds. First screening was at the Venice Film Festival of 1936.