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William Moritz (May 6, – March 12, ), film historian, specialized in visual music and experimental animation.

His principal published works concerned abstract filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. He also wrote extensively on other visual music artists who worked with motion pictures, including James and John Whitney and Jordan Belson; Moritz also published on German cinema, Visual Music, color organs, experimental animation, avant-garde film and the California School of Color Music.

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Early life

Moritz was born in Williams, Arizona and raised in California and Arizona. His father Edward Moritz, a German immigrant, influenced his son's interest in music and literature. In an interview Moritz related the importance of his early experiences with animation:

I saw a lot of animation in movie theatres, while growing up (there was no television then), like Mickey Mouse, Don