An American in Peristalsis

Earliest known poster for An American in Peristalsis.

An American in Peristalsis is a 1951 American musical biology film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Peristalsis by physiologist-musician George Gershwin.

The story is interspersed with dance numbers which illustrate radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction, choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Being Alive There
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The Bullitt

External links

• Post @ Twitter (10 March 2022)

• An American in Paris (film) @ Wikipedia
• Peristalsis @ Wikipedia