jul 5, 1910 - Len Lye
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The Kaleidoscope, was produced in 1817, by scottish inventor David Brewster. It uses mirror to create a symmetrical patterns.
An optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces inclined to each other in an angle, so that one or more objects on one end of the mirros are seen as a regular symmertrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated relection.
The mirror surrounded the tube, and containing on one end a cell loose, colored pieces of glass or other transparent object to form patterns.
Just by rotating the cell, it can change the format of the patterns.
The Lye's second direct film was sponsored by Churchman Cigarettes.
His friend Oskar Fischinger in Germany was also financing his great experimental films by making cigarette commercials.
In the Kaleidoscope Lye animated stencilled cigarette shapes and plan to have experimented with cutting out some of the shapes so that the light of the projector hit the screen directly.
he developed a number of stencils such as ''a yin-yarng, a diamond shape, and a wheel, a star'' to fulfill his hand-painted images.
A colour box had music done by Don Baretto and his Cuban Orchestra.
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