Animated Motion: Part 1
Animated Motion: Part 1
| 01 January 1976 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
MartinHafer This is a very dry educational film by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro--both Canadian animators. As I said, however, the film is VERY dry--with extremely dry narration and a style that could have been a lot more interesting. It consists of the narrator showing the various types of movement that can occur in an animated film--and how increasing the number of frames will impact the smoothness of an animation. For the amateur animator (particularly the old style non-CGI ones), it's a great film to watch. However, for the average person it's like an eternity in Purgatory--even though this film is only about 10 minutes long. So, unless you are such an animator or unless you want to torture someone, I wouldn't recommend this one.
sirarthurstreebgreebling II Considering the work of McLaren its hard to believe that the same man made this set of short "educational" films about the process of animation.The subject would have been interesting if it did not have the look of a public service announcement gone wrong, a painfully slow 10 minutes and a wasted opportunity. I first saw these in about 1982, and they looked from another era, a bad one to be more precise.