A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
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The provided text does not detail the critical reception of the film. It only notes that a commercial venture for related designs was a financial disaster, and optical scientists found potential medical utility for the spinning disks.
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The film was credited to Marcel Duchamp's alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, and made in collaboration with Man Ray and Marc Allégret.
Marcel Duchamp created the film by filming painted designs on flat cardboard circles as they spun on a phonograph turntable.
The film is composed of alternating static camera shots of spinning disks, called Rotoreliefs, inscribed with puns and alliterations in French.
The film was acquired by MoMA in 1938, becoming the first work by Duchamp to enter a museum collection.
Duchamp's venture to sell the Rotorelief designs as a commercial product was a financial disaster.
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