Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren, CC, CQwas a Scottish/Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada. He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 April 1914
Norman McLaren quotes about
infinitely watch
If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.
numbers quality elements
The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
black-and-white color film
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
consciousness human social
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
previous whether
I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.