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This past week a friend and I shot a video/stop motion piece for a client and so I’ve spent the last week hunkered down in a dark room pushing clips around in Final Cut.

I will post that once it is released sometime next month but until then I wanted to share the animated work of Norman Mclaren. My friend turned me on to his work with Canada’s National Film Board in the early 1950s and I was blown away by not just the complexity of it but also how beautiful it is. Made all the more amazing consider that it is all analogue film based.

Here is one of my favourites, Begone Dull Care, in which Mclaren painted and scratched directly onto each frame of the negative; all in time to jazz pianist Oscar Peterson’s score. It is like a mini modern painting on each frame.
With all the interest from photographers lately in stop motion and film, I would say this is required viewing.

To read more on Norman Mclaren go to the National Film Board’s website

Tags: animation, Inspiration, motion, Music, National Film Board of Canada, Norman Mclaren, Oscar Petersen, photography inspiration, stop motion, Video

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