Norman McLaren — Director (23)
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Animated Motion: Part 3 (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Animated Motion: Part 3
director: Norman McLaren / Grant Munro
other title: Animated Motion #3
The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates different aspects of movement that are essential to the animator’s art. In this case it is the pause and irregular movement.
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NBC Valentine Greeting (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
NBC Valentine Greeting
director: Norman McLaren
A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the message "Will you be our Valentine?"
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Dollar Dance (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dollar Dance
director: Norman McLaren
This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen drawings made directly on 35mm film stock. Music is by Louis Applebaum, a leading composer and advocate for the arts in Canada.
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Christmas Cracker (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Caprice de Noël
director: Grant Munro / Norman McLaren … actor: Grant Munro
other title: Caprice de Noël / 聖誕焰火
Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells," stop-motion animation of toys come to life, and cel animation of a man who seeks the ideal star to top his Christmas tree.
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Keep Your Mouth Shut (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Keep Your Mouth Shut
director: Norman McLaren
This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping during World War II.
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Boogie-Doodle (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Boogie-Doodle
director: Norman McLaren
other title: 涂鸦
An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which "boogie" played by Albert Ammons and "doodle" drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a rhythmic, brightly colored film experiment. The main title is in eight languages.
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New York Lightboard Record (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
New York Lightboard Record
director: Norman McLaren actor: Norman McLaren
other title: 纽约映画展
New Yorkers watch as Norman McLaren's animated promotional film for Canadian tourism plays on the giant pixelboard overlooking Times Square. The caption below the board reads: "Canada... Wonderful World At Your Doorstep". McLaren himself is a member of the crowd.
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Animated Motion #1 (1976) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Animated Motion: Part 1
director: Grant Munro / Norman McLaren
other title: Animated Motion: Part 1
The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.
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Rock the Boat (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
C'est l'aviron
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Norman McLaren
other title: 这是赛艇 / C'est l'aviron
One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings on black cards were photographed with overlapping ‘zooms’ to suggest the forward movement of a canoe along rivers and lakes. This film appears in Chants populaires no. 5 and in Chants populaires no. 6.
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Narcissus (1983) [Movie] Douban
Narcissus
director: Norman McLaren
other title: 那喀索斯
英语中自恋（Narcissism）这个词，直译成汉语是水仙花。这来自一个美丽的古希腊神话：美少年那西斯在水中看到了自己的倒影，便爱上了自己，每天茶饭不思，憔悴而死，变成了一朵花，后人称之为水仙花。心理学家借用这个词，用以描绘一个人爱上自己的现象。弗洛伊德：对于自体（自我内在影像）投注里比多兴奋的状态。从里比多的方式来说，也就是他将本来应该投注于自我的对象客体的里比多，反向投注到自己身上，这样病人就无法和别人建立有效和融入的亲密人际关系，并且经常沉浸在自己不切实际的幻想中。同时由于自恋的人专注对象是自己，所以无法发展出移情，所以无法分析。