Direction: Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Cast Rupert Doone

Plot This live-action film exploits the triple images of the Gasparcolor system in an unprecedented way. Lye filmed dancer Rupert Doone in black and white, then colored the footage during the...

Direction Len Lye

Plot Len Lye's use of stenciled patterns, animated words, and complex printing and color processes transforms black-and-white found footage into a startling, rhythmic, multilayered celebration of everyday work.

Direction Len Lye

Plot From a surreal paradise a shower of oil revives the thirsty cars and creatures.

Direction Len Lye

Plot An avant-garde piece produced by Len Lye, colours and shapes accompany the popular 1930s tune ‘Swinging the Lambeth Walk’. 'In this film coloured designs convey in simple visual form the...

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Plot Lye made this film in association with the British General Post Office, for the GPO Film Unit. A Colour Box, an advertisement for "cheaper parcel post", was the first direct...

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Cast Evelyn Corbett · Dwight Godwin

Plot Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends will, but with the moral that correspondents...

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Direction Len Lye

Cast Valerie Forrest · Hilda Masters

Plot A recipe for a wartime vegetable pie.

Direction Len Lye