Visual Music 1947-1986 from the CMV Archive (DVD)

*This is not a comic! But I studied alternative cinema in college and was feeling nostalgic! 

This DVD is intended for PRIVATE HOME USE and available for PICKUP ONLY. If you would like to screen these films publicly or educationally please contact The Center for Visual Music. 

By Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Charles Dockum, Jules Engel and Barry Spinello. Produced by The Center for Visual Music. 

DVD disc, Region Free, 78 minutes 30 seconds, Colour, Sound, 2017

Thirteen rare visual music films featuring pre-computer abstraction, using a variety of techniques including early oscilloscope experiments, color organs, hand-drawn sound, animation drawn directly on film, painted scrolls, and optical printing. Many preserved films and new HD transfers. Films from the archive of Center for Visual Music, by Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Jules Engel, Barry Spinello. Region 0, NTSC, DVD. Films include Bute’s Color Rhapsodie, Abstronic and Polka Graph (all new HD transfers!), Belson’s Mandala, Meditation and Chakra (all preserved by CVM), Engel’s Play Pen, Mobiles and Landscape, Dockum’s short documentary about his Mobilcolor instrument plus two Mobilcolor Performance films, and one film with handmade sound and image by Barry Spinello.

Institutional rates listed include classroom and library use, no digital distribution. Streaming rights or rights for online use are not included. Usage in museum or gallery exhibitions is not permitted for any of the dvds sold by CVM.

If you need additional streaming rights for your university, they are licensed per film, separately, please inquire to cvmaccess (at) gmail.com

Charles Dockum - 1952 Mobilcolor film (excerpt) from CVM on Vimeo.