Norman McLaren Collection: The Master's Edition - 7-DVD Box Set

Norman McLaren Collection: The Master's Edition - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
900 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1933 - 1952 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Norman McLaren

Written By:
Norman McLaren

Actors:
Norman McLaren

Synopsis:

A collection of works by the Scottish-born experimental filmmaker and animator. Norman McClaren, born in Stirling, Scotland, left Britain on the eve of WWII, eventually settling in Canada. There, he made his seminal work 'Neighbours' (1952) - a stark collection of images and sounds, hardly a movie at all, with a strong anti-war message. The picture was winner of several prestigious awards including an Academy award. This box set has been a long time in the making - The National Film Board of Canada wanted to display McLaren's art in a way that would let everyone appreciate his life's work. It was this that led to the production of this box set of seven DVDs, incorporating 58 McLaren films, 38 of them re-mastered for the occasion. Also included are many of his tests and unfinished films, which shed new light on his creative process and make it possible for the serious critic, student and film lover to discover the artist at work in his studio.

It isn't at all strange that the NFB has chosen its 65th anniversary to be the McLaren Year. NFB's and Norman McLaren's history have been completely related since its begginingsJohn Grierson. McLaren came to the call of documentarian John Grierson, for whom he had worked previously at the General Post Office Film Unit, to join him at the newly formed NFB. Soon after his incorporation , Grierson asked McLaren the formation of an animation unit, which would be formed in later years by Evelyn Lambart (1942), Jean-Paul Ladouceur (1942), René Jodoin (1943), Grant Munro (1944) and Robert Verrall (1945). Until his death in 1987 McLaren remained at the NFB as its main figure in animation. You may find more details about the McLaren Year's activities here. McLaren was born in Scotland in 1914. He initiated his art studies at the Glasgow School of FIne Arts in 1932. There he began to get interested in cinema, and through the Glasgow Film Society he discovered the works of Eisenstein and Pudovkin, whose editing techniques are recognizable in his first works, and then Oskar Fischinger. The first two works of McLaren , Seven Till Five (1933) and Camera makes Whoopee (1935) are very formalist. It is wothyof note the second one, in which McLaren makes already use, although briefly, of animation and even pixilation, a technique that he would develop later.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 April, 2016.