Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is an independent [1] short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048 . [2]
The film was created by applying oil paint on Plexiglas. [3] Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months.
In 1997, the film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [4] The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights. [5]