GrantMunro &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:GrantMunro @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:14:41 +0200 Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/neighbours-1952 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" Neighbor Night/div div class="img" Neighbours (1952)/div div class="caption" Neighbour on the Left (Jean Paul Ladouceur) and Neighbour on the Right (Grant Munro) upon discovering a small flower growing right on their properties' border. Two colourful, almost identical deckchairs can be seen on the lawn in the front and two cardboard façades of almost identical houses in the back. Both men wear almost identical beige slacks and blue shirts and sport a very similar hairstyle. DP: Wolf Koenig./div div class="txt" Norman McLaren's low-budget pixelation (animation created with live action footage) was groundbreaking in many aspects; even the soundtrack was painted directly onto the film stock. "Love your neighbour" ### – title card\ Read more about its fascinating backstory and watch the short animation over at the National Film Board of Canada's website./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NeighborNight #NormanMcLaren #GrantMunro #JeanPaulLadouceur #WolfKoenig #ShortFilm #animation #StopMotion #pixilation #neighbours #war #Canada #1950s/div /section ]]>

Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)

Aug

17

Neighbor Night

Neighbours (1952)

Neighbour on the Left (Jean Paul Ladouceur) and Neighbour on the Right (Grant Munro) upon discovering a small flower growing right on their properties' border. Two colourful, almost identical deckchairs can be seen on the lawn in the front and two cardboard façades of almost identical houses in the back. Both men wear almost identical beige slacks and blue shirts and sport a very similar hairstyle. DP: Wolf Koenig.

Norman McLaren's low-budget pixelation (animation created with live action footage) was groundbreaking in many aspects; even the soundtrack was painted directly onto the film stock.

“Love your neighbour”

– title card

Read more about its fascinating backstory and watch the short animation over at the National Film Board of Canada's website.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NeighborNight #NormanMcLaren #GrantMunro #JeanPaulLadouceur #WolfKoenig #ShortFilm #animation #StopMotion #pixilation #neighbours #war #Canada #1950s

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