Foam-O-Drome© Presents Dept. - 100 Greatest Top Ten Movies You Must See Before You Die Ever

NY, NY is a fifteen-minute movie lensed by Francis Thompson in 1957, and scored by Gene Forrell, whose brilliant jazz-orchestral-Carl Stalling accompaniment deserves equal status to the visuals. Lensed is the right word - Thompson apparently spent years making his own lenses to give a uniquely kaleidoscopic effect. Information about him is surprisingly slim on the internet, with even the usually reliable wikipedia falling short. A private man.

NY, NY's abstract geometric style owes something to German Expressionism, perhaps, but its colorful lightheartedness and the synchronised, animated score make it easy and beguiling entertainment, even if you're not out of your head on drugs. You can watch it right here at th' Foam-O-Drome© - be a come-with guy! It's fifteen furshlugginer minutes! You can so do this!

Gentleman blotter-muncher Aldous Huxley has this to say:

“And then there is what may be called the Distorted Documentary; a new form of visionary art, admirably exemplified by Mr. Francis Thompson’s film, NY, NY. In this very strange and beautiful picture we see the city of New York as it appears when photographed through multiplying prisms, or reflected in the backs of spoons, polished hub caps, spherical and parabolic mirrors. We still recognize houses, people, shop fronts, taxicabs, but recognize them as elements in one of those living geometries which are so characteristic of the visionary experience." 

Hmm - the visionary experience - what can he be talking about?