Norman McLaren was a Canadian artist, animator and filmmaker who made this musical visualization “Dots” in 1940 and short film “Neighbors” in 1952.
I thought that his visualizations to music were very ahead of the time and reminded me of visualizations made with PD. He made them without using a camera, by directly drawing with pen ink on film. The short film “Neighbors” also won many awards around the world. All his work is very innovative and fun, and there’s many more of his videos on youtube if you want to check out more.
~Veronika T.
Wow I can't believe this animation was made in that era. It's amazing that something like that, probably took a grueling amount of time to do back then and was still very successful. Now something like that might take half the time or less using PD like you said or animation software such as flash. I think the syncing of the music with the video is the most impressive part.