Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren is a Scottish animator and a film director, who was born in Scotland in 1914. His filmmaking started early in his life after he came known with works by great Russian filmmakers and German animators. While a student at the Glasgow school of fine arts his fascination with dance led him to make much artificial documentaries. McLaren immigrated to the United where he made an amount of abstract films and then he joined the general post office film unit, where he worked in London using the method of filmstrip In the same year. McLaren used to see abstractions in his mind as he listened to music. With film, he realized he could make these abstractions visible. His mind was made up and he joined a newly formed filmmaking club at the art school. He became the mainspring of this club, and he displayed an original and indefatigably energetic talent. His student films were mainly live-action; he was fascinated by the movie camera and sought to exploit it to its maximum.

One of his work called spook sport 1940 a technique of film animation is a method where footage he produced consisting of drawing on film to create a sketch effect, on a blank film it enables him to pain, draw or tape objects. I admire his work in terms of the way the displays with a creative effect as well as it is abstract art that animation moves in time to the music.

Norman McLaren, available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXTx9BKENs&feature=related

Norman McLaren, available at http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Norman-McLaren/biography.php

Norman McLaren, available at http://www.mellart.com/2008/03/spook-sport-1940.html

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