Notes on the Popular Arts

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Saul Bass

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation, live action, and special effects to portray the impact of and necessity for popular art forms for personal and cultural expression. Presents the fantasies and self projections of several persons who daily watch, listen, and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music, and the print medium., Uses live action, animation, and special effects to show how popular arts in America serve as means of self projection and fantasy fulfillment. Scenes include TV, pop music, comics, publication and movies.

Complete Record: Uses animation, live action, and special effects to portray the impact of and necessity for popular art forms for personal and cultural expression. Presents the fantasies and self projections of several persons who daily watch, listen, and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music, and the print medium., This series of lighthearted episodes illuminates the fantasy lives of those who daily watch, listen and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music, and print. It shows how the popular arts serve as vehicles for self-projection and fantasy fulfillment. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


3 users have this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop


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