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C'est l'aviron
19443 min 18 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Norman McLaren
Production: Norman McLaren
As part of the series Chants populaires, Norman McLaren creates the illusion of movement to illustrate the folk song “M’en revenant de la joli’Rochelle” by using a travelling zoom that follows the cut-out of a canoe’s bow as it moves over a painted backdrop.
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Subject categories
- Music > Animation of folk songsFolk MusicQuébécois Music
- Film and Video Arts > Norman McLaren Animation techniques
- History > Early Colonization/Settlement
- History and Citizenship Education > First Occupants (to 1500)Industrialization (1800s)Society in New France (1608-1760)
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- director
- Norman McLaren
- producer
- Norman McLaren