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

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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