Boogie-Doodle (1940)
- Directed by
- Norman McLaren
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a short animated film with no camera. Norman McLaren drew and painted directly onto the film strip. The images dance in sync with a boogie-woogie piano piece by Albert Ammons.
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What happens
Boogie-Doodle is a 1940 drawn-on-film visual music short by Norman McLaren, set to the boogie-woogie music of African-American jazz pianist Albert Ammons. Though released by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941, Boogie-Doodle was actually made by McLaren in New York City in 1940, a year before he was invited by John Grierson to Canada to found the NFB's animation unit. McLaren, who had been influenced by the hand-painted films of Len Lye, was in New York exploring the technique on a grant from the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, creating Boogie-Doodle along with three other cameraless films: Dots, Loops and Stars and Stripes. The animation in Boogie-Doodle coincides exactly with Ammon's musical piece, with McLaren's animation beginning at the very first bar and concluding at the final note. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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La poulette grise (1947)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.