Norman McLaren - Classic or Dud?

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In 1965 he was making the most amazing animated shorts and was scratching the soundtrack directly onto the film. It sounds like BREAKBEATS. (The visual are pretty fucking amazing too.) National Film Board of Canada paid him a salary to make experimental animated films = dream job??!! Did crazy things with stop-motion animation and live actors and horizontal lines and "drawing jazz directly onto the film". Like Stan Brakhage but not miserable. CLASSIC!

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

He's my fave critic's favourite filmmaker, but I haven't seen any of it. Len Lye C/D...

Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago)


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