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The World of John Whitney: Pioneer of Visual Music by John Whitney Sr., 1984

The World of John Whitney: Pioneer of Visual Music

John Whitney Sr.  

1984

Film/Animation

LaserDisc Corporation of America, Montvale, New Jersey, Visual Pathfinders series
LaserDisc, 12-inch
42 minutes

Film and Animation

Description

This sealed US issue of a LaserDisc from Pioneer’s Visual Pathfinders series holds six films by the animator John Whitney Sr., from Catalog (1961) to Arabesque (1975). Catalog is a reel of effects from the mechanical analog computer he built in the late 1950s from a World War II M-5 antiaircraft gun director. Permutations (1968) came out of his residency at IBM, where the IBM physicist Jack Citron wrote programs for the IBM 2250 display. The computer animator Larry Cuba programmed Arabesque.

Includes

Jack Citron, Larry Cuba, William Moritz

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