Bop scotch

Duration: 4

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Kinesis presents ; directed by Jordan Belson ; assisted by Patricia Marx.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Belson, Jordan.; Marx, Patricia.; Kinesis, Incorporated, presenter, film distributor.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.; PFA 1604-01-13207. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.; Animated visuals set to jazz music.; "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images (Mandala [1953]). Belson subsequently withdrew these films from circulation as imperfect and primitive, but they already reflect his refined plastic sensibility, fine color sense, and superb sense of dynamic structure. They also foreshadow his more accomplished expressions of mystical concepts, Bop Scotch seeming to reveal a hidden soul and life-force in 'inanimate' objects."--Film historian William Moritz, 1996, from Center for Visual Music Website, http:// www.centerforvisualmusic.org; PFA 1604-01-13207. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/ 07/30 Lovely Kodachrome. Very light to light scratches on the emulsion side and light scratches on the base side. A few instances of torn perfs; otherwise no edge damage. Very good condition. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2007/11 /15 Same.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE