Native Portlander Harry Smith is best-known to those with an interest in early American music as the compiler of the indispensable Anthology of American Folk Music, originally issued in 1952 on the Folkways label. What many may not know is that Smith's interests ranged far and wide, and in 1939 he began to experiment with film.
Abstract and animated, Smith's films were designed to be accompanied by live bands, and the surreal visual effects were achieved by hand-manipulating the celluloid. Despite their never being given a legitimate release, Smith's films have garnered wide critical attention; below are examples of some of his earliest work.
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