[Frameworks] Oskar Fischinger Google on June 22 + Fischinger sources

[C Keefer]

With a lot of media coverage today for the Oskar Fischinger Google Doodle
on Fischinger's birthday, CVM salutes the very few persons in the press who
took the time to find and write about Oskar Fischinger's own films!  Very
few places provided sources to find the work; many printed factual errors,
most barely mentioned or ignored his films. The TIME magazine piece cited
is one of the rather lame ones.

We salute a very short list - Washington Post, Telegraph UK, Independent UK
and Huffington Post (Germany edition).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/06/22/oskar-fischinger-google-doodle-lets-you-salute-the-animation-pioneer-the-nazis-couldnt-stop/?utm_term=.17af43630c25

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/oskar-fischinger-google-doodle-today-best-animations-who-is-he-a7802926.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/oskar-fischinger-watch-amazing-musical-animations-created-decades/

(though the latter two did embed the faded An Optical Poem from youtube
which is missing all of its golds and yellows, that's not what this film
looks like).

*SOURCES for Fischinger's work:*

Authorized Fischinger videos online - CVM's vimeo channel has both free
excerpts and VOD full films:
https://vimeo.com/album/3111432/sort:plays/format:thumbnail

The Fischinger films (and rights), papers, many animation drawings and some
paintings are owned by Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles.  Online
resources include bibliography, film notes, list of exhibitions and much
more:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger

Paintings for sale are handled by Peyton Wright Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
The Fischinger Trust is now pretty much only involved with paintings.

Thanks to Barbara Fischinger, The Fischinger Trust gifted the films,
rights, Fischinger's papers, and many animation drawings to Center for
Visual Music.  Our archive also includes the papers of Elfriede Fischinger
and William Moritz, Fischinger's biographer.
A collection of early German business-related papers is at the Deutsches
Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, plus a small collection of animation drawings and a
few paintings.

*************

Info on forthcoming Fischinger DVD:
http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/newdvd.htm

A few sponsors have stepped up today, including a major name, thus names of
supporters and sponsors will be updated on that page shortly.
The first Fischinger DVD, Ten Films, is still also available from CVM.
www.centerforvisualmusic.org

Please direct Fischinger inquiries to:  cvmaccess (at) gmail dot com

The irony of all of the Google Doodle "make your own piece" attention -
Fischinger's daughter Barbara often remarked that her father HATED homages
and believed people should be doing their own work!

best regards,
Cindy Keefer
Curator/Archivist
Center for Visual Music
www.centerforvisualmusic.org

CVM email = cvmaccess (at) gmail.com





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> >Leads to a quote from Oskar Fischinger and a small thing to make one¹s own
> >visual music piece
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