Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) is a short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048. The film was created by applying oil paint on acrylic glass. Fischinger filmed each brushstroke over the course of 9 months. In 1997, the film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Motion Painting No. 1 in 2000, though they do not have distribution rights. References Further reading The original acrylic glass panels are at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany. William Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004) External links FilmAffinity 1947 films United States National Film Registry films American avant-garde and experimental films Paint-on-glass animated films Visual music American animated short films 1947 animated films 1940s American animated films