Begone Dull Care

Series: Mclaren Films Series

Duration: 9 min. 0:08:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1949

Creator: National Film Board of Canada.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Norman McLaren uses animation to interpret a modern jazz composition performed by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The slow, quiet middle section, in black and white, is in contrast with the colorful, swift-moving opening and closing sections., P: Preservation Material NT: Negative Track AC: Acetate A: 400' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Color Sound 308 Evelyn Lambart Director: Evelyn Lambart International Film Bureau

Complete Record: Opens with a title page in the eight most used languages and a hand-drawn sound track. Moves into a phantasma of visual images which interpret jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio. Norman Mclaren, , This phantasmagoria was created by ignoring the confines of frame division and drawing fluid lines and brilliant colors on a length of film. A three-movement composition, including ragtime, blues and boogie-woogie (composed by Oscar Peterson), accompanies the shapes that sparkle, converge, multiply and recede. , This phantasmagoria was created by ignoring the confines of frame division and drawing fluid lines and brilliant colors on a length of film. A three-movement composition, including ragtime, blues and boogie-woogie (composed by Oscar Peterson), accompanies the shapes that sparkle, converge, multiply and recede. , Norman McLaren uses animation to interpret a modern jazz composition performed by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The slow, quiet middle section, in black and white, is in contrast with the colorful, swift-moving opening and closing sections., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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