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Released December 31st, 1947, 'Motion Painting No. 1' stars The movie has a runtime of about 11 min, and received a user score of 62 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 24 experienced users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 experimental short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048. It is a film of a painting (oil on acrylic glass); Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months. In 1997, this film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000." .