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Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is an independent^[1] 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.^[2]

The film was created by applying oil paint on Plexiglas.^[3] Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months.

In 1997, the film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[4] The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights.^[5]

• The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.
• William Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)

• Motion Painting No. 1 at IMDb
• FilmAffinity