Rainbow Dance

1936 British film
  • 1936 (1936)
Running time
4 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film, created by New Zealand-born animation pioneer Len Lye and released by the GPO Film Unit. Lye's second film to be viewed by the public, it uses the Gasparcolor process. Credits also list Australian music pioneer Jack Ellitt ("Synchronization") and Frank Jones ("Camera").[1][2]

Synopsis

A man (Rupert Doone) is holding an umbrella in the rain. Then, he starts dancing, and as he does, the backgrounds completely change. Then, he starts dancing near the ocean, with a woman and fish following. Then, he plays tennis with cel-animated circles as another man watches. A colorful array of shapes follow, and the man sits and thinks, as the shapes come back and images come off the score sheet. The music ends, and a man's voice says the following: 'Post Office Savings Bank puts a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you', followed by 'No deposit is too small for the Post Office Savings Bank'.

References

  1. ^ "Rainbow Dance". thekidshouldseethis.com. TKSST. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  2. ^ Sexton, Jamie. "Rainbow Dance (1936)". screenonline.org.uk. BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

External links

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Films directed by Len Lye
  • A Colour Box (1935)
  • Rainbow Dance (1936)
  • Kill or Be Killed (1942)
  • Free Radicals (1979)


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