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Begone Dull Care
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly on to their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly on to their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.
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directorNorman McLarenEvelyn Lambart
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animationNorman McLarenEvelyn Lambart
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editingNorman McLarenEvelyn Lambart
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producerNorman McLaren
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musicOscar Peterson Trio
Ages 10 to 11
School subjects
The teacher can have students study the cameraless animation techniques used by the filmmaker to identify the elements of visual-arts language (shape, line, colour, texture) and take inspiration from them to create works on paper; draw a “flipbook” animated sequence (draw images on successive pages of a notebook and animate them by flipping the pages); highlight the elements that generate an emotion, make a list of them and represent each of them with a facial expression, funny face or gesture; and/or do research on the lives and work of Norman McLaren and Oscar Peterson.
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Begone Dull Care , Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart, provided by the National Film Board of Canada