A combination of animated line drawings with live photography of a nude model. A play on the title (living lines, life model, procreation and hand life line).

1962 film by Ed Emshwiller

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George Dumpson and his backyard museum, as he noted: "George Dumpson was a scavenger. He created a small universe with what he found and could carry on his homemade wagon. To me he epitomized the soul of the artist. He put together what things he could in such a way as to satisfy some inner need, just as I had to make this picture of him and his place."

This 16mm Abstract Movie by the Ed Emshwiller is a masterful piece of Pure Cinema. It's wonderfully conceived, beautifully shot, tightly and lovingly edited and put together with a poignant gentle musical score. The optic/in-camera mechanical celluloid visual effects are emotionally Cinematic. This is a visual tone poem, a romantic poetic Love Letter to the movie maker's wife, Carol Emshwiller. The visual textures of the tree barks and the leaves on the branches being gently blown in the wind being double-exposed with the visual texture of Carol's facial skin is sensually pleasurable and expressive. The movie's pacing from a gentle slow rhythm to a kinetic and kinesthetic visual cascade of flashing and flickering colors and explosive motion and bright lights contrasting with dark shadows and shapes in super fast alternating spirals and bursts is exhilarating visceral emotionally intense cinema.

艾姆许维勒(Ed Emshwiller) Video艺术中的开拓者，在Michigan大学巴黎的Ecole des Beaux-Arts和纽约的艺术学生联合研究绘画和图像。他创作了实验电影、纪录片和带多媒体的表演作品，这是在制作了有革新精神的录相和完成了他在1979年的第一部数字计算机动画的录相作品《Sunstone》。他的制作从那时起包括计算机动画片（Skin Matrix），多媒体作品（Vertigo, Hungers），和Video装置（Passe, The Blue Wall）。《The Blue Wall》在89年展示在Nagoya的ARTEC,是一种互动的观众参与的Video装置。通过Video的调整的手段，它用计算机动画粘合了三种不同的真实位置的图像。观看者看到他们自己在屏幕上处于一个由他们所处的位置决定的复合空间，有时在前面，有时在中间，有时在背景中的动画平面。

In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized dancers are chroma-keyed into a mutable, computer-animated environment. Working with the "Scan-i-mate," an early analog video synthesizer, Emshwiller choreographs an architectural, illusory video space, in which frames proliferate within frames, disembodied heads and hands move within a collage of animated forms, and the dancers and their environment are subjected to constant transformations through image processing. With its witty interplay of the "real" and the "unreal" in an electronically rendered videospace, and the skillful manipulation and articulation of a sculptural illusion of three-dimensionality, Scape-mates introduced a new vocabulary of video image-making.