Dots are Fun!

Stumbled across this bit-o-whimsy whilst fruitlessly searching YouTube for Dwinell Grant films. 'S okay - this is fruit enough to compensate.

Norman McLaren is apparently something of a national hero amongst our north-of-the-border neighbors. This despite being, well, Scottish & all. Dots (1940) is pretty neat. Not only were all of the images directly painted onto the film, but the soundtrack was directly scratched upon it as well. I saw McLaren's Pas de Deux a few years ago & was quite impressed, so when this presented itself to mine eyes I jumped on it like a sailor on a whore. And thereafter was I sated for at least ten minutes.

Squishy noises. Squishy images. One minute seventeen seconds of FUN.