Norman McLaren (1914), a British immigrant in Canada who had roots in both animation and documentary (having worked with Grierson),
crafted abstract camera-less "cartoons" such as
Boogie-Doodle (1940), set to the boogie-woogie music of pianist Albert Ammons,
Hen Hop (1942),
Begone Dull Care (1949), Now is the Time (1951), with toys with three-dimensional projection, Neighbours (1952), Blinkity Blank (1955), which is perhaps his most famous,
Rythmetic (1956), Christmas Cracker (1963), Pas de Deux (1968),
Synchromy (1971),
Narcissus (1983),
etc.
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