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Rhythm (1957)
1 min, 16mm b&w, sound
Music African tribal music, unknown
Production company Direct Film Company
Producer James Manilla
Invited to make a one minute film for the Chrysler Corporation's weekly television programme, Lye took 90 minutes of footage showing the making of a car and edited and synchronised it to African drum music. The film won first prize in the television category in the 1957 New York Art Directors' Festival but was subsequently disqualified because it had never been broadcast (Chrysler had rejected it). P. Adams Sitney said in his book Visionary Films "Although his reputation has never been sustained by the invention of direct painting on film, Lye deserves equal credit as one of the great masters of montage".
1 min, 16mm b&w, sound
Music African tribal music, unknown
Production company Direct Film Company
Producer James Manilla
Invited to make a one minute film for the Chrysler Corporation's weekly television programme, Lye took 90 minutes of footage showing the making of a car and edited and synchronised it to African drum music. The film won first prize in the television category in the 1957 New York Art Directors' Festival but was subsequently disqualified because it had never been broadcast (Chrysler had rejected it). P. Adams Sitney said in his book Visionary Films "Although his reputation has never been sustained by the invention of direct painting on film, Lye deserves equal credit as one of the great masters of montage".