Norman McLaren: Restored Classics
75 minutes
The National Film Board of Canada is proud to be able to offer a special opportunity to screen some of Norman McLaren's finest films, completely re-stored. The restoration process involved an enormous amount of technical expertise, bringing back to life the freshness of the films without betraying the ori-ginals. Too much cleaning would might have erased artefacts resulting not from the passage of time, but from limitations in the techniques used in the original production process.
McLaren's films form an extraordinary body of work remarkable for its inventiveness, research and humanism. A master of experimental film, influenced by surrealism, and passionate about dance and music, McLaren was a complex artist whose filmography reflects a career both prolific and brilliant.
The festival asked a number of animation professionals about the meaning of Norman McLaren, for them and the film history.
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This program screened as part of HAFF 2006
Showing in this program
Begone Dull Care
Blinkity Blank
This experimental short film by Norman McLaren is a playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.
Hen Hop
Le Merle
Lines Horizontal
Neighbours
Opening Speech: McLaren
Pas de Deux
Norman McLaren's short film is a cinematic study of the choreography of ballet. A bare, black set with the back-lit figures of dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like, hypnotic effect. This award-winning film comes complete with the visual effects one expects from this master filmmaker. (National Film Board of Canada)
Stars and Stripes
