A COLOUR BOX

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The world’s first direct film - made without a camera. Lye painted colourful designs onto celluloid, matching them to dance music.

“You’ve not seen a colour film until you’ve seen a Len Lye effort” - Herbert Alpert, Sunday Mercury, 1935.

This film won a Special Prize at the Brussels International Film Festival in 1935.