What a visionary. His work is endlessly fascinating.

No way. How is this even possible. Truly mindblowing.

@lucianofreitas2009

Жыл бұрын

Look for "Synchromy"

This guy was fantastic! Making animation by painting it directly on the film. No paper. No cells. No computers or CGIs. Why can't we find any of his short films here in America on DVD? If they can put Stan Brakhage's stuff on the Criterion Collection, there's got to be a place for Norman McLaren.

One of the few people outside of the former Soviet Union to master the art of graphical sound.

@DavidRodriguez-of9ch

6 ай бұрын

Wow, can you tell me about that of the Soviet Union? Sounds fascinating, and I don't have information about this graphical sound there.

@IS_CBR_2763

5 ай бұрын

​@@DavidRodriguez-of9chvariophones

@chocolatechipcookiesareawesome

7 күн бұрын

@@DavidRodriguez-of9chSearch “Variophone”

Oh, I so miss my old history animation classes...

McLaren could say "It's MY movie!" and LITERALY mean it!

Awesome! It sounds inspired by the "soundtrack" sequence in Disney's "Fantasia."

i always wondered how this stuff worked. glad to see this.

Thank you very much for posting this, I've watched it before and I love it!

That guy was a GENIUS!

As much as I love the work of McLaren, we should know that he didn't invented this technique. Composers like *Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov* (probably best known for his “Simfoniya Gudkov” or “Symphony of Sirens” November 7, 1922) and mostly *Daphne Oram* , one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound, was the creator of the Oramics technique for creating electronic sounds using drawn sound in the late 50s. Take a look to the Oramics, it's an exceptional multiple 35mm multictracks optic / audio synthesizer. Absolutely mind blowing.

@poopwizardd

2 ай бұрын

Thank u for sharing!!

What a CREATION!

Narrator: This is my voice! Norman Mclaren: No! This is my film!

This is just amazing...nice share!

...love McLaren’s work so much. Always gives me a bit of hope and optimism even now, in 2019, when the world is on the very brink of total war of extinction....🤭🙀

@poopwizardd

2 ай бұрын

Lol, 2019 you say..

Norm was an absolute genius.

Mind blown.

unimaginable patience

really great!

2:00 also presented by original Fantasia.

THANK YOU.

love it!!

Man, check out the slick top on Norman, there. He was one hep cat, I tells ya!

Fascinating.

woow, you can actually paint sound!!! :3

Is there more to this video? What does that little animation he made end up looking/sounding like?

Very interesting.

@poughkeepsiejohn1 Actually there's a very good dvd with all (or most) of his work, bought it less than 15$ (equiv) in France. Culture is unfortunatly driven by biggest ego, humble hard working genius tends to be forgotten... just dig ;)

total genius, norm mclaren.

that's bloody amazing lol :D

great video

@poughkeepsiejohn1 Totally. That would make a great collection.

This reminded me of Fantasia

great !!! thx

bellissimo

3:47 a friend told me that it sounds like a fart. I cried

@ciracarvalhal9622

3 жыл бұрын

that's literaly the first thing I thought. XD

great

genio!

Norman was a serious artist..today kids go out and buy a digital program for concerts and festivals, there's no artistry anymore, its all formulaic....this guy was an original.

@MicahBuzanANIMATION

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he was a pioneer for sure. There's a lot of insanely impressive work being made today, you just have to dig a bit to find it.

@BibleStorm

6 жыл бұрын

You assume that nobody in the entire world is doing something "original" yet you fail to see that originality is just a form of innovation. Everything comes from somewhere. This guy didn't invent film, cameras, pens or ink, he's using other people's work to develop his own. Originality comes out of inspiration, inspiration comes from influences, those influences were influenced by something 'original' that came prior, etc etc. The cycle of influence and innovation oroboros, the snake eating it's own tail.

fucking awesome

Who are the other two guys in the Prepared by: Don Peters and Lorne Batchelor?

just watched this in class - so ye

Oscar Peterson on piano!!

Is that Lorne Greene doing the narration?

This is a technique I’ve been looking to try for a long time, does anyone know of any modern programs that will allow you to do this??

@harmanzira9661

3 жыл бұрын

i don’t think so

@TheJustinator

2 жыл бұрын

You could probably use audacity to DRAW audio but it has to be zoomed in VERY closely.

@zigzag7838

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJustinator Thanks, I’ll have to look into that!

@psyk-delix

2 жыл бұрын

try Virtual ANS, a replica of a russian synthesizer were you could draw sound

@oldfilmsandstuff4679

2 жыл бұрын

There's an old bit of software called "Image to Sound" that should be axactly what you're looking for, replicating an optical film soundtrack. It was made by Andrew Jaremko

i wanna do this

omg i thought Fantasia invented it !

@giovannibattistaboccardo1410

6 жыл бұрын

Fantasia is from 1940

@nancher

5 жыл бұрын

@@giovannibattistaboccardo1410 RUDOLF PFENNINGER discovered in 1932

patience is a thing of the past it seems...

Ah this is neat

Those noises Norman McLaren created sound a bit rude to say the least. the sound-line at 1:40 I can remember from the opening narration in the move 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

@poughkeepsiejohn1 n excelent !

4:08 Pardon me. 😂

@poughkeepsiejohn1 good!!! very good"""

i bet you run over to your friend's house to chat instead of calling them on the telephone...

canadian film board. ha

Don't be so quick to write off digital production, especially in the live realm. It's not as easy as pressing play

Inspired by Fantasia, clearly.

Heroe !