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...training camps, where the bulk of British fliers are now being trained, boys of 20 and 21 are taught not only to fly, but to fight. Heavyweight Boxer Len Harvey (himself an R. A. F. sergeant) teaches them how to take it on the chin. Psychologists teach them how to make the most of their brains and nerves. Officers teach them to respect the authority of such crackerjack leaders as their Chief of Air Staff, Sir Cyril Newall...
...sounds- is familiar to art students, who often take sketch pads to concerts and try to "draw" the music. Hollywood has lately caught on, and An Optical Poem by Artist Oskar Fischinger, a visual translation of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, was released last spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways...
...Disney Silly Symphonies are the product of a big corporation employing 75 animators, 150 copyists and a gang of gagmen, musicians and technicians. They are first drawn on large celluloid sheets, superimposed and then photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...
...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...
...Says Len Lye himself : "I'll put on a film that will blow the film-world skyhigh...