An Optical Poem (1938)Stream and Watch Online

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Released March 5th, 1938, 'An Optical Poem' stars The movie has a runtime of about 6 min, and received a user score of 66 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 33 top users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "A dance of shapes A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form Liszts Second Hungarian Rhapsody is the music The shapes all twodimensional are circles primarily with some squares and rectangles and a few triangles The shapes move rhythmically to the music receding from view or moving across the screen Red circles on a blue background light blue squares white rectangles Then a red background of many circles with a few in the foreground Red gives way to blue then to white Shapes reappear as Liszts themes reoccur Then with a few staccato notes and images its over"

'An Optical Poem' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on DIRECTV .