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Norman McLaren

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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.


— Norman McLaren


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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.


— Norman McLaren


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The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.


— Norman McLaren


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Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.


— Norman McLaren


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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.


— Norman McLaren


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Did you know about Norman McLaren?

As of 1942 McLaren could no longer keep up with the demands for animation at the fast-growing NFB and he was asked by Grierson to recruit art students and create a small animation team—a task made more difficult because many young students had gone off to fight in the war. See also
McLaren's Negatives
René Jodoin
Motion graphics. McLaren founds recruits for his fledgling animation unit at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Ontario College of Art including René Jodoin George Dunning Jim McKay Grant Munro and his future collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux. Norman McLaren CC CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

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