1952, USA, 16mm, colour, music by Aaron Copland’s Hoe Down and Don Gillis’s Ranch House Party, 7 min.
These electronic pictures of the music are a natural phenomena which take place in the sub-atomic world; they are then captured on the Cathode Ray Oscilloscope and filmed with the motion picture camera. The colored backgrounds are hand done and superimposed on the electronic animation of the musical themes. In this movie, film artist Mary Ellen Bute combines Science and Art to create Seeing Sound films.