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Begone Dull Care (1949)

Begone Dull Care poster
Directed by
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
8 min
Rated
0
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 75 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Painted directly on film stock, this short animation turns jazz music into dancing colors and shapes. It creates a wordless visual performance with no characters or story.

playfulrhythmicabstractsurreallivelyenergeticwhimsicalexperimental

What happens

Begone Dull Care (French: Caprice en couleurs) is a 1949 visual music animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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