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Fiddle-de-dee

Norman McLaren

1947 3 min

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A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing colour. To "Listen to the Mocking Bird" played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker and blend. Norman McLaren, painting on film, translates sound into sight.

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A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing colour. To "Listen to the Mocking Bird" played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker and blend. Norman McLaren, painting on film, translates sound into sight.

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Credits

• director
  Norman McLaren
  
• producer
  Norman McLaren
  
• animation
  Norman McLaren
  
• music
  Eugène Desormeaux
  

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