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Tarantella

Tarantella

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Tarantella

1940

0h 5m

5.9(28 votes)

Animation

Music

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Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.

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Directed by: Mary Ellen Bute
Ted Nemeth

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