Canon (1964)
- Directed by
- Norman McLaren, Grant Munro
- Genre
- animation, music
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 18 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 animated short uses moving cubes and human gestures to show how a canon musical form works. It pairs the visuals with a classical score and electronic sounds.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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