Harry Smith's Films

[Synthetik]

I was not familiar with Harry Smith's film work, but saw a few examples in an interesting show on Ovation last night called Weird America, which was a concert tribute-documentary on the american folk music series that Harry Smith released on Folkways Records that influenced a lot of musicians over the years (as well as documented music from a period of time in american history that was almost lost in world war 2 when they melted 78 records for the shellac). But his abstract film work is really interesting, especially considering the time period it was made it. I'd like to think Harry would have been a Studio Artist user if it had been available at the time. Anyway, here's an example of his work below for those interested:

[Frank N]

Thank you for posting.

[Charles Floading]

For some reason, this YouTuber won't play from the page (I'm using Safari) but if you click on the image twice, you'll go to the orignal on You Tube.

Poor Smith, died in '91. If he had just held on a little longer, he could have lived to use Studio Artist!

Stan Brackage was another artist who did in analog what artists today are doing digitally with SA.

[Synthetik]

I think you need to have the latest flash installed on your machine to see the youTube videos play. They play in place on all our macs in the office using Safari.

If you go to youTube you can track down some more volumes of the early abstractions videos.