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AMPAS honours Norman McLarenAcademy will screen McLaren films at Goldwyn Theatre, Aug. 18
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents "A Salute to Norman McLaren" on August 18 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills.
(Source: Big Cartoon Database) First the Cannes Film Festival saluted him, then the Toronto International Film Festival. Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (who produces the Oscars) will honour Canadian animation legend Norman McLaren. AMPAS presents "A Salute to Norman McLaren" Friday August 18, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills. Animation expert and author Charles Solomon will screen 13 of McLaren's short animated films, and then host a panel discussion on McLaren's life, work and his influence on animators world-wide. The panel will include McLaren's former colleagues (and Oscar-nominated directors) Ishu Patel and Chris Hinton. The 87 minute screening will include such short films as Norman McLaren's Opening Speech (1961), Mail Early for Christmas (1959), Stars and Stripes (1940), Hen Hop (1942), La Poulette grise (1947), Begone Dull Care (1949), Blinkity Blank (1955), the Oscar-nominated A Chairy Tale (1957), Le Merle (1958), Lines Horizontal (1962), Pas de deux (aka Duo; 1968), Synchromy (1971) and the Oscar-winning Neighbours (1952). McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1914. German abstract animator Oskar Fischinger inspired his work as a student filmmaker. McLaren's distinctive style developed from his desire to marry music, movement, abstract images and innovative animation techniques. His work touched on emerging styles in painting, choreography and popular music, including jazz and country & western. While McLaren is best known for drawing, painting or etching directly on the film frame, he also explored many other animation styles, and he produced and directed live-action and documentary shorts with equal facility. McLaren created the National Film Board of Canada's first animation team 65 years ago, at the request of founder John Grierson, and he left his mark on the NFB to this day. McLaren retired in 1983 and he died in 1987. If you want to see why Norman McLaren is considered one of the greats of animation, do yourself a favour and click here, here, or here.
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