Synopsis

Also a Medina commercial, made from Oskar Fischinger’s classic Komposition in Blau. The last part and the responsibility to make the experimental short into a Norwegian cigarette commercial may well have been done by Oskar's brother Hans who stayed in Germany. The production company was Desider Gross in Prague for Tiedemanns Tobacco.

Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) was a German filmmaker who made abstract animation films in the period from 1920s to 1030s. As a major figure in the development of filmic abstraction and ‘visual music’, as an inventor and experimentalist he was a pioneer in multimedia live performances and in introducing innovations to animation techiques. He emigrated to the US in 1936 where he lived until his death.