John Whitney Sr. Movies

Moon Drum offers an impressionistic evocation of the mood, color and feel of native American art created by computer graphics.

A piece of abstract cinema by John Whitney. A series squares follow a 3-dimensional track, each one with a slight delay after the other.

John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art....

An abstract computer-generated animation set to music by Terry Riley.

Collection of Computer Graphic effects.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art. Preserved by...

A UPA/CBS cartoon film by Ernest Pintoff and John Whitney, music by Shorty Rogers.

(ca.1949, 16mm, b/w, sound, 3min.)

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A silent black and white computer graphic short film specially made to accompany John H. Whitney's Lecture on Digital Harmony at Cranbrook, British...

The entire film is divided into four consecutive chosen approaches—the fourth section devoted to a reiteration and extension of the original...

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992) uses the concept of complementarity to make sense of the confusion that...

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means...

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.