An Expression

The only other review of this video seems to be ignorant of Ogino Shigegi's work.

While it is not traditional in the sense that it does not have characters and a "storyline," you have to keep in mind that this video was created at a time (mid 1930s) before techicolor become official and where displaying film in color was in its extreme infantile stage.

His flashing between reddish and greenish is making use of these basic colors to simulate a natural color before movies were able to replicate this. It's an experimental video, but also one of the first Avante Garde expressions of a video in a ... time when every drawn video was some kind of cartoon with cartoon characters. The video also simulates three dimensions, a unique depart from the two-dimensional (2.5 dimensional) nature of every other hand-drawn video at the time.

In short, this video was not made for your entertainment, it was made to push the boundaries of animation, which it did (hence how it won 1st place at the St. Teccian Cup). Complaining about how it's "not enjoyable hence the low rating" is like saying "broccoli is a bad food because it's not sweet." It's using a very insular scope of defining what's good.

Not to mention, the video is a SILENT FILM from THE 30s! Who in the right mind would complain that a silent film has no sound?

Rate a 2
No vocals
art film
Warning: those with light sensitivity stay clear from this film

Story
Unclear. While there is no spoken or worded story that leaves symbolic. Although how can you make a message with just changing color and shapes? That is either too feeble to construct one with or too advance for me to grasp. Introduction was uncalled for. Sure it might appear catchy by the 'flashes' but it not only destroyed the viewer from trying to read the title but was used throughout the film. Making that not special.

Art
A 'shaped' mess. I would want to add my saying as a positive at least they had ... color but they did that too what i never thought would be an over extent that i can't say that.

Sound
none

character-none

Enjoyment: while this animation brings nothing to the table of value at least it is different from the rest of the animations that i have seen.