I've always believed that short films can be---and often ARE---better than most full-length movies. Here's a great example of that. McLaren was one trippy dude!
I remember watching a copy of this alone on16 mil in a little screening room at Langara Collage, my first year of art school. At the time I picked by a short description in a catalog. This film changed the way I thought about light, sound, animation and painting.
Yeah he actually painted, scratched etc, the sound marks directly onto the strip of film reel to create the sounds. He was indeed a genius and pioneer.
That was amazing. Hypnotic and ground breaking, I think this is my favourite, boogie doodle was pretty close though. It made me think of the first ever modem being born. I cant wait to show this to people.
essentially? its all painted by hand on the raw film stock, visuals and audio data. then run through a optical printer to combine the audio with the visual. this film is from 1971, so I'm going to assume the audio playback device is a moog of some sort
He also created the music by drawing images to be inserted in the sound tract. He ended up with six "synthetic" octaves which he composed this film entirely of.
Traslate: Al principio, esa muestra me parecía muy extraña, ademas de esos sonidos de video juego, pero es una maravilla animada. Felicidades Norman Mc laren. R.I.P Synchromy, National Film Board of Canada, Copyright 1971
My comment was a reply to an earlier post, I don't find this film any boring myself. Stupid RU-vid doesn't always put the replies under the post... A problem that's getting quite annoying...
oh, absolutly! I find this piece just... an expresion of modern abstract art.. on film.. the only reason I mention a moog because of the tone sounds being generated are very... moogish... but yes.. all the sounds are hand drawn to the visuals.. sorry.. the visual track and the audio track are still seperate.. it's the confines of the media.... wait..never mind.. I get it now.. it's all square waves and completly possible with an optical printer.