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Dollar Dance

Name: Dollar Dance
Duration: 4 min

Norman McLaren

1943 | 4 min

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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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director

Norman McLaren
producer

Norman McLaren
animation

Norman McLaren
music

Louis Applebaum

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