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1964 film

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Canon
Directed by	Norman McLaren Grant Munro
Produced by	Norman McLaren
Cinematography	Robert Humble
Music by	Eldon Rathburn
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1964 (1964)
Running time	9 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	Silent (Only music can be heard)

Canon is a 1964 National Film Board of Canada animated short co-directed by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro that offers a visual representation of the canon musical form through three animated segments. The soundtrack combines both a recorded classical score by Eldon Rathburn and electronic sounds produced via synthesizer.

The film uses object animation as cubes moves in checkboards and it also use non-camera animation as only four peoples doing gestures.

Awards

Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal: First Prize, Best Animated Film, 1965
3rd International Film Festival of India, New Delhi: Bronze Peacock, Second Prize, 1965
17th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award for Best Film, Arts and Experimental, 1965

References

Valliere, T. Richard (1982). Norman McLaren, Manipulator of Movement: The National Film Board Years, 1947-1967. University of Delaware Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780874131925.
Ciancarini, Paolo; Nakatsu, Ryohei; Rauterberg, Matthias; Roccetti, Marco (July 17, 2008). New Frontiers for Entertainment Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, First IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2008), September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy. p. 12. ISBN 978-0387097008.
"Canon". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
Chris Pallant, ed. (August 27, 2015). Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781628923513.
"Canon". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

External links

Watch Canon on the NFB website

Canon in the NFB collection catalog

Canon at IMDb

v t e Norman McLaren
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