The colour box

This is the Colour Box created by Len Lye.
It was the first series of moving pictures put together and it was done by scratchings and prints, being put up by projection. It has then been put with music and was in theory the first kind of music video.
Lye continued to experiment with the possibilities of direct film-making to the end of his life. In various films he used a range of dyes, stencils, air-brushes, felt tip pens, stamps, combs and surgical instruments, to create images and textures on celluloid. In Color Cry, he employed the "photogram" method combined with various stencils and fabrics to create abstract patterns. It is a 16mm direct film featuring a searing soundtrack by the blues singer Sonny Terry.