Around Is Around by Norman McLaren

A pioneering work in the development of proto-computer abstract animation, Around Is Around, made with Evelyn Lambart and Chester Beachell, is a ten-minute long animated film that was groundbreaking for its time. It used an oscilloscope to produce certain abstract images, one the first published animations to do so.

The British Film Institute expounds:

“This experiment blazes so many trails that we need to list them before considering which is merely a picturesque by-path, and which may be expected to lead some where. Among the more important novelties exemplified are:

(i) Three-dimensional abstract form. (ii) Abstract form plus stereophonic music. (iii) Abstract form produced from hand-drawn track photographed frame-by-frame. (iv) Abstract form produced by normal-speed cinematography. (v) Three-dimensional form produced by synthesis from a series of two-dimensional images.”