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Christchurch-born artist Len Lye (1901 - 1980) was an...
From talking chickens to dancing Cossacks, feast on this...
A collection about some of New Zealand's notable...
Documentary on Len Lye
Another documentary on Len Lye
Animation documentary featuring more early Len Lye films
This music video also features scratched film
Len Lye's animation technique was used in this video
Chris Knox taking inspiration from Len Lye
Kiwi experiments with sound & image from the 1960s
Another controversial experimental film
More abstract animation set to music
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A kinetic live action short film
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The Count Basie Orchestra swings
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It has been transferred to video, that is how I discovered it -- ON VHS in NTSC...
Other UK film history semi-forgotten :
THE MIKADO, COLOUR, 1939
-- May have been partly produced in 1938
-- Not the full version, about 10 minutes cut from the straight G&S version
-- Kiwis involved? None that I know of...