By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

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• Norman McLaren:

  The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; t

• Norman McLaren:

  Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

• Norman McLaren:

  Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

• Norman McLaren:

  In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film

• Norman McLaren:

  Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

• Norman McLaren:

  I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previo

• Norman McLaren:

  Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

• Norman McLaren:

  So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

• Norman McLaren:

  The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

• Norman McLaren:

  I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization wh