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A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" is the music. The shapes, all two-dimensional, 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 Liszt's themes re-occur. Then, with a few staccato notes and images, it's over. Read More

Watch An Optical Poem online. Featuring , An Optical Poem is classified as Animation genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1938. An Optical Poem was directed by Oskar Fischinger. Read Less