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Animated Motion: Part 1

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1976 9 min
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The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.

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The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.

Film and Video Arts All subjects
  • director
    Norman McLaren
    Grant Munro
  • producer
    Norman McLaren
    Grant Munro
  • camera
    Raymond Dumas
  • re-recording
    Michel Descombes

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Animated Motion: Part 1
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