Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger 22 June 1900 31 January 1967 was a GermanAmerican abstract animator filmmaker and painter notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos He created special effects for Fritz Langs 1929 Woman In The Moon one of the first scifi rocket movies He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases many of which are in museums galleries and collections worldwide Among his film works is Motion Painting No 1 1947 which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the US Library of Congress Description above from the Wikipedia article Oskar Fischinger licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia