"El ojo oye, el oído ve": Norman McLaren (1914-1987).

... La voluntad de realizar un tipo de cine que pueda deshacerse de los límites convencionales de la percepción...




Filmografía:

1936

Hell Unltd.





1938

Love on the Wing (General Post Office film unit). Ibert Divertissement.



1939

Allegro (Guggenheim Museum). Synthetic sound Rumba (ibid).

Stars and Stripes (ibid). March tune.

1940

Dots (ibid). Synthetic sound.



Loops (ibid). Synthetic sound.

Boogie-Doodle (ibid). Albert Ammons plays boogie.



Spook Sport. Interpretation of Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre.



1941

Mail Early(NFB). Benny Goodman's 'Jingle Bells'.

V for Victory (NFB). Sousa march.

1942

Five for Four (NFB). Ammons plays "Pinetop Boogie."

Hen Hop (NFB). Barn dance music.



1943

Dollar Dance (NFB). Music by Applebaum; lyrics by Guy Glover and McLaren.

1944

Alouette (NFB). N. 1 of the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series.



C'est l'aviron (NFB). Part of the Chants Populaires series.



1946

Là-haut sur ces montagnes (NFB). The singing of the folksong from which the film takes its title. Part of the Chants populaires series.

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-Century Painting (NFB). Synthetic sound.



Hoppity Pop (NFB). Barrel organ music.



1947

Fiddle-De-Dee (NFB). Fiddler plays 'Listen to the Mocking Bird.



La Poulette Grise (NFB). Anna Malenfant sings the folksong.

1949

Begone Dull Care (NFB). Oscar Peterson Trio plays jazz.



1950

Pen Point Percussion (NFB). Synthetic sound. 1951.



Around Is Around (NFB). Music by Louis Applebaum.

Now Is the Time (NFB). Synthetic sound.

1952

Neighbours (NFB). Synthetic sound A Phantasy (NFB). Maurice Blackburn's music for saxophone and synthetic sound.



Two Bagatelles (NFB). Synthetic sound 1955.

Blinkity Blank (NFB 1955). Synthetic sound and music of Blackburn



1956

Rythmetic (NFB). Synthetic sound.



1957

A Chairy Tale (NFB). Music performed by Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal.



1958

Le Merle (NFB). Trio lyrique sings the folksong 'Mon merle.'



1959

Mail Early for Christmas (NFB). Music by Eldon Rathburn.

Serenal (NFB). Grand Curacaya Orchestra of Trinidad.

Short and Suite (NFB). Eldon Rathburn's music for jazz ensemble.



1960

Lines Vertical (NFB). Blackburn plays electronic piano.



1962

Lines Horizontal (NFB). Pete Seeger plays winds and strings.



1964

Canon (NFB). How a musical canon is constructed, using music by Rathburn.



1965

Mosaic (NFB). Synthetic sound.

1967

Pas de Deux (NFB). Panpipes.





1968

Psyche Rock. Pierre Henry, Michel Colombier.



1969

Spheres (NFB). Gould plays Bach Fugue 24 and Prelude 20 (Book I) and Fugue 14 (Book II) from The Well-tempered Clavier.



1971

Synchromy (NFB). Synthetic sound.



1972

Ballet Adagio (NFB). Albinoni Adagio.


1976/78

Also Animated Motion (NFB), a series of five study of films prepared by McLaren on animation techniques.











1983

Narcissus (NFB). Balletic interpretation of the Greek myth. Music by Maurice Blackburn.