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Love on the Wing (1939 Video)

Director

Norman McLaren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

An early colour animation film by Norman McLaren. By using a ‘squiggle’ which is under constant metamorphasis into three characters, McLaren creates a tale of love as a means of promoting the then...

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Articles

Date

26 Oct 2010, 10:35

Author

Dominic O'Brien

Post Type

Page

The diverse and innovative articles which appear on this page have either previously been published by the British Universities Film & Video Council or complement the work of...

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Animated Motion Frame by Frame (5 Parts) (1976)

Director

Norman McLaren

Producer

Norman McLaren

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Five films in which Norman McLaren comments on, demonstrates and classifies the aspects of motion which the animator employs in his daily work. Part 1 explains how the animator makes his still pictures...

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Narcissus (2000)

Director

Norman McLaren

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), ££15.99

Three films by Norman McLaren: 1) Narcissus (1982, 22 min.), a balletic interpretation in which film, dance and music are merged to celebrate the myth of Narcissus and its timeless significance. The film...

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News for the Navy (1937 Video)

Director

Norman McLaren

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

The story concerns Evelyn, who sends a newsaper to her fiancé Bert Higgins AB, who has gone to sea on the ‘HMS Incredible’. On her mother’s advice she risks a penny-ha’penny stamp and addresses the...

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Britain in the Thirties

Director

Edgar Anstey; Vivian Brau; Alberto Cavalcanti; Arthur Elton; Humphrey Jennings; London Kino Group; Len Lye; Richard Massingham; Norman McLaren; Basil Wright

Subject

History

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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director

Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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Early Cinema Commercials: Animation (1991 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale: £15.45 (inclusive)

Compilation of six short films from the GPO Film Unit featuring some early revolutionary work by noted animators Len Lye, Lotte Reiniger and Norman McLaren. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Britain in the Thirties (1939 Video)

aka: British Avant-Garde: The Thirties

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. silent/sound. 177 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of short British avant-garde films from the 1930s - a decade marked by both the birth of British realism, and a surrealist influence from Europe.

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Master Animator: George Dunning (2013)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 27 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

In this film artist, illustrator and film animator George Dunning, explains his work and ideas on how motion pictureaffects our imagination. He demonstrates some of his drawing techniques, and conducts a...

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