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Film Description
Norman McLaren is a giant in the history of the art of animation. His films form a coherent and extraordinary body of work that reveals an outstanding inventiveness, groundbreaking research and deep-rooted humanism.
For the first time, all of his surviving work has been collected to form this definitive box set, including his best known films: Neighbours (1952), for which he won an Oscar, and Pas De Deux (1968) for which he won a BAFTA. The restorative process has been undertaken with the highest care and sensitivity to remain faithful to the originals while also digitally enhancing colour and sound.
Film Information
| Director | Norman McLaren | ||||
| Genre | Animation
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| Country | Canada | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 1930s-70s |
DVD Extras
7 discs. Contains over 40 test and unfinished films. Includes 88-page bilingual booklet.
Technical Details
| Certificate | E | Length | 900 mins | Label | SODA | ||
| Cat No | SODA043 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | ||||||
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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 1st February 2007
When asked how he would like to be remembered, Norman McLaren said, with characteristic modesty, as 'an innovator of new techniques, some of which led to a few distinguished or interesting films'. A dip into any one of the seven discs in this highly covetable set of his collected films, which ranges from his work for (and even before) John Grierson's GPO Film Unit, through his wartime work, his joyously free interpretations of music from Oscar Peterson to Québécois folk song, his experiments with synthetic sound and his sublime late-career ballet films, reveals the complete inadequacy of this statement.
The films are augmented by new introductions and fascinating archive documentaries, and audio clips of McLaren discussing his films. Also included is his five-part series Animated Motion, made with Grant Munro in the 1970s, ‘in which McLaren comments on, demonstrates and classifies aspects of motion which the animator employs in his everyday work’. That such basic, methodical techniques (all demonstrated by means of a white disc on a black background) can be transmuted into the rhythmic wonders and emotional content of McLaren’s work borders on the miraculous.
His universe is one of constant flux and metamorphosis, and in joining image with music in such a primal way, by painting directly on a frameless filmstrip as if it were a long, thin canvas, it's impossible not to watch films such as Boogie Doodle, Blinkity Blank or Begone Dull Care without a joyful reaction that takes the form of a large 'YES!' - preferably hand-scratched into black leader, and accompanied by the crackle and pop of synthetic sound as the word flares up in a momentary cascade of fireworks, impressing its after-image on the retina.
I began with a quote from McLaren; I'll end with a quote from John Grierson, the man who was instrumental in allowing him freedom to experiment at the GPO Film Unit and the National Film Board of Canada. He said, 'If there is such a thing as pure movie, be sure that McLaren has been one of its greatest exponents'.
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Including: A Scanner Darkly, Berthold Bartosch - L Idee, Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage, Fluxus - Fluxfilm Anthology, Harry Smith - Early Abstractions, Len Lye - Rhythms, Norman McLaren - The Masters Edition, Oskar Fischinger - Volume 1, Oskar Fischinger - Volume 2, Phil Mulloy - Extreme Animation.
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With outstanding releases this year of films long absent or never before seen on dvd (Masters of Cinema and Second Run deserve particular commendation here), as well as some fine additions to silent cinema on dvd (such as the BFI’s A Throw of the Dice), 2007 has been a really gratifying year for those who appreciate quality films on dvd, not least because of wonderful titles that seem to have appeared out of the blue – Gary Tarn’s Black Sun is an example of this. Also, I must mention the latest in the American Folk Blues series of dvds, the British Tours 1963-66. It’s incredible to have this footage at all and I’m very grateful.
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