Neighbours
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Oscar® Winner, Best Documentary (Short Subject), 1952
In this Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.
Directed by Norman McLaren - 1952 | 8 min
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In this Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.
Directed by Norman McLaren - 1952 | 8 min
→ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHerjfWGX0CVDbirzzjGRjerJ0ejgSV9l
→ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHerjfWGX0CUzNtp0Ex5sl2jsGUj_7fyz
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Credits
Norman McLaren (1914–1987); Grant Munro; Jean Paul Ladouceur (1921–); Wolf Koenig; Clarke Daprato; National Film Board of Canada; International Film Bureau
Copyright
Copyright status (Wikidata): copyrighted
Complete catalog record
A parable in which two men, neighbours, quarrel about a flower that springs up exactly over the boundary line that divides their gardens. The quarrel grows intensely fierce, each liquidates the other’s family and finally each other. The final scene shows their adjoining graves above which the flower grows again. In this film McLaren has used his “pixillation” technique in which the principles of animation, normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion, are used to animate the lives of human beings. The film has neither dialogue nor commentary, the visuals being accompanied by synthetic music, drawn directly on the film base, and sound effects.
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