John Whitney Sr. Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

John H. Whitney Sr. explains the graphic art potential of the computer and the methods and philosophy involved in his computer filmmaking. Preserved...

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art. Preserved by...

John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art....

A UPA/CBS cartoon film by Ernest Pintoff and John Whitney, music by Shorty Rogers.

Collection of Computer Graphic effects.

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...

An abstract computer-generated animation set to music by Terry Riley.

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

First film by the Whitney brothers.

A piece of abstract cinema by John Whitney. A series squares follow a 3-dimensional track, each one with a slight delay after the other.

A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992) uses the concept of complementarity to make sense of the confusion that...

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means...

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

John Whitney, Sr. one of the early pioneers in films made by computer-driven cameras explains and demonstrates his work. Shot on location at...

The entire film is divided into four consecutive chosen approaches—the fourth section devoted to a reiteration and extension of the original...

(ca.1949, 16mm, b/w, sound, 3min.)

Directed by John Whitney.