Neighbours

[@TheTrumpReaper]

Norman McLaren was one of very few artists who knew how sound looks.

[@jkellis2]

"If all my films were to be destroyed except one, I would want that one to be Neighbors because I feel it has a permanent message about human nature." -Norman McLaren

[@gvbezoff]

The name of the movie is "Neighbours". This is Canada buddy.

[@grrwuff4099]

I immediately thought 'World Politics' as of the Cold War era. In 2020, this theme seems like children's play in comparison. Today, we're owned by Corporations disguised as Governments(Deep State), Banks(Federal Reserve), Social Media(...) and philanthropic foundations(Soros, Clintons). H U R R A H / WWG1WGA

[@jatohkira3059]

@@grrwuff4099 we got a conspiracy theorist over here

[@xtc1957]

@@grrwuff4099 One thing remains constant throughout: humans cannot get it together.

[@charlesgoodman3358]

What a moron

[@AwesomeBrony8823]

Thank you Hamster Fragment. You brought me here

[@case_sensitive]

same here

[@eduardoastorga8826]

Yessir

[@jammo_x6022]

Whats a hamster fragment?

[@mekaee]

​@@jammo_x6022Artist

[@scorinth]

... and here I am, just watching the shadows once I realized that the production was time-consuming and naturally-lit.

[@PayneToTheMax]

Absolutely remarkable that this was made in 1952. Simply remarkable. McLaren was truly the godfather of stop-motion animation, as well as of experimental cinema more generally. Just insane!

[@RTY345]

bok gibi yorum

[@chim-chimney]

One thing I noticed (and I'm not sure if it is intentional or not) is how the men died and were buried on the opposite side of where they came from. Interpret that how you will.

[@crispi810]

Must be intentional

[@ClaireDiVODer]

This film will only ever age even better so long as humanity exists.

[@a.s8409]

This was brilliant. EONS ahead of its time for 1952 and still as relevant as ever.

[@kademcarthur5362]

This aged better then it should’ve.

[@ferociousgumby]

Neighbours (French title: Voisins) is a 1952 anti-war film by Scottish Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. Produced at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, the film uses pixilation, an animation technique using live actors as stop motion objects. McLaren created the soundtrack of the film by scratching the edge of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound. (Wikipedia)

[@mateistoian726]

So repulsive to call this an "anti-war film". Do they not notice one of the neighbors is explicitly a pacifist? The point of the movie is far more human. But pompous writers always have to assign political labels to things. So that the art they like is on their team and not the other. Ugh.

[@bobcat420]

@@mateistoian726 niether neighbor is explicitly pacifist.

[@mateistoian726]

@@bobcat420 i disagree

[@nickturner4150]

And so it begins...

[@beardedchimp]

​@@nickturner4150 who says it begins, how dare you declare the start before I'm even ready. Just know you have what's coming to you!

[@leppender2450]

This film was made before editing staff were given credit for their works, but I know for a fact that my grandpa was lead editor for film splicing in this picture. Consider how hard it would have been to make a person glide across the ground in 1953, and try to tell me this isn't art.

[@burningmatch09]

Do you have info about the deleted scenes?

[@arturmusial8579]

It's called stop motion

[@leppender2450]

@@arturmusial8579 Precisely!!! Look at old Disneys' vs new ones, and you'll see a lack of credit in the early days being replaced by over-vigilant attributions.

[@RTY345]

yok aga sen boş konuşuyon ya

[@wadernater63]

Definitively art. Beautiful, really.

[@slkshewolf]

This scared the daylights out of me as a kid, still relevant. Well done NFB.

[@markdemell3717]

I understood this as a boy to some degree.

[@jezebeljones659]

@@markdemell3717 I understood it perfectly, as strife was a background to my daily life. Genius, all the way thru.

[@kylehendricks695]

This got dark real fast, but I cant deny brilliance when it slaps me in the face

[@TheActualMrLink]

With a fence post!

[@NOISEDEPT]

I recorded this film from TV to VHS video tape, about twenty years ago. Of course the video cassette was lost and I'd forgotten about the film. I was just watching another short film called "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson. At the end of Episode Four (all four episodes were edited together in the version I saw) I noticed a short clip of this film, which prompted me to do a little search to find the original. Great to see it again. And the soundtrack is fantastic, too, made using old production techniques, that a woman called Daphne Oram went on to develop with her Oramics machine. I'm sure you can get a version of her machine for the iPhone, now. This then leads me back to the Ferguson film (Everything is a Remix) ... Well worth a watch. (copy, transform, combine).

[@pepetosverdugo2725]

The Canada National Film Board sells a DVD pack with almost all Norman McLaren production.

[@Ash-ot2ic]

i swear the similarity between this and the majority if tiktok skits i’ve seen is astounding. seventy years later, and stop motion jumping sped up is still peak comedy.

[@AvitalShtap]

Humans love to do similar things :)

[@soundscenesdcmusicmedia2709]

...'comedy'...?

[@kokirikitty7908]

I think you missed the point of this. Maybe time for less tiktok? 🤔

[@bretthuey30]

This is funny to you? Not at all comedy and you've obviously missed the point of this masterpiece.

[@catnisseverdeen]

@@bretthuey30 bro they’re just saying stop motion jumping sped up looks funny and that it’s also a trend on tiktok 😭 relax

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

So strange to see how this filmmaking technique began and think of how it has been used since. Animation is such a recent phenomenon, it's easy to forget we are still seeing it grow from infancy. Much respect for the trailblazers

[@fenris91]

The flower wanted to be with both of them, you know.

[@ferociousgumby]

I like the fact that he DREW the music/soundtrack effects directly onto the film stock.

[@hklinker]

They really knew how to send a message back in elementary school. I got this and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery inside a couple of years in the early 70s.

[@hotelmario510]

I can only imagine how shockingly violent this was at the time it came out, given the Looney Tunes-esque antics in the first half. It's still pretty shocking even today.

[@tommonk8383]

Especially the part with the wife and kids

[@thunderbird1921]

Popular American pulp magazines in the 1950s could be pretty violent actually, the worst cover image I've seen was a 1958 detective stories magazine called "Guilty". It literally showed a woman pinning a man to the ground and murdering him with a blowtorch, while he screams in agony. While not as horrible as that, the very popular Western stories magazine Ranch Romances sometimes showed cowboys AND cowgirls both killing thugs as their cover art (so romantic). Violence sadly has been more common historically than we'd like to admit.

[@gftyhify]

It was indeed. In fact the scene where the men murder each others wives and babies was deleted, but it was later reinstated. However the original negatives were destroyed so they salvaged the scene from a poor quality positive print. If you look at other uploads on KZbin that scene is poor quality

[@BILLY-px3hw]

You have to remember that WWII had just ended and the terrible effect it had on the returning soldiers, perhaps even these actors were witness to or participated in unspeakable acts of violence. This film was a clear message of what war does to humanity

[@delacroix2007]

this traumatised me since i first saw it in public school...

[@RichardDuryea]

I should show this to my dad who is a land surveyor. It’s his job to determine where the property lines are. Anyone who tries to measure their own property is setting themselves up for disaster.

[@marissolidvisual1071]

aplaudi de pé em meu escritório como se estivesse em uma amostra de arte. Eu não acredito que estou assistindo isso pela primeira vez apenas em 2024. O mundo deveria conhecer isso

[@EmpireExplorer]

Saw this in college years ago, but forgot the title. I've finally found it!

[@eric7922]

absolutely superb, and more relevant than ever...

[@generaldraeckos55]

its like a fight between charli chaplin and buster keaton

[@fredm73]

"Lose your love when you say the word 'mine' '", as in the Neil Young song.

[@jezebeljones659]

Another Canadian genius!

[@fried_onions_]

This film is so creative and at the same time it has such a fundamental message about the human race, the way we deal with possession, our relations with others and our instincts. Can anyone recommend me similar artists to Norman McLaren?

[@timmcinnes2594]

Grant Munro, who is the right handed neighbour.

[@yvc9]

A masterpiece i have never forgotten

[@tallguy181]

I've loved this film since the 1950's :)

[@jelle3172]

Hello! Whas this film very modern for its time back then?

[@marshalcutler2382]

Mclaren would scratch experimentally and directly on the film stock's soundtrack to create the sound and music. He was an absolute genius.

[@VeryFunMovieClips]

So this what inspired Star Wars, dope!!!

[@TheActualMrLink]

This seriously feels like a GMod skit.

[@AvitalShtap]

Especially the way he walked during that one time HAHAHAH thats why i love it so much :D

[@hidededark]

Hamster Fragment

[@silnetofsn]

Amazing short film! I came across it, and couldn't remember where I had seen it (at the time I didn't watch it, just saw the title), but the idea from what I'd read about it came back to my memory very clear: two men fighting over something. This reminds me of an excellent book, a Novelle from a Gottfried Keller, 'Romeo und Juliet auf dem Dorf'.

[@Orangeflava]

Amazing. One of my favorite shorts, ever

[@killiangilroy3964]

My new favorite short film

[@jaystreizer5151]

Two gods of space-time fight over flower that gets you high.

[@kathleenevers5180]

Thanks for posting this. I first saw this in the sixties. The message is just as impactful today!

[@fwgross]

I first saw this film in 16 mm back in 1967. It has remained with me today (2018) an a film which made XLNT use of stop motion photography.

[@heavens_kate]

so good wow i definitely love this original soundtrack better too

[@raphaeldetter6885]

Der Film hatte eine wichtige Thematik

[@jammo_x6022]

6:48 I do this all the time

[@doriedellquillopo8017]

This video made me laugh in school

[@zaksnow2233]

I remember watching this in an experimental film class and remarking that it reminded me of a Boobah storypeople skit... and it does certainly have the same energy albeit it also has a much much darker meaning.

[@hoodinislilsub980]

All in all, three people died here Guy on the left Guy on the right And the girl who always dies in an impeccable fashion Thank you Hamster Fragment

[@aarontomato_]

The pure and sinister form of human nature.

[@jezebeljones659]

On the nose! And if that isn't funny, I don't know what is.

[@ISailorMuseI]

This is so incredible, the full animation is a master piece. Thanks to Roberto Andrade (a.k.a. Tio Rober) for this recommendation.

[@SpongeBobNumber1Fan2003]

My Mom Shared This On Facebook I Love Vintage Films Even Though I Was Born In The 2000s

[@miaalmeida4787]

omg ur so quirky for liking vintage films!! nobody does that anymore its almost like the marjority of best movies of all time arent vintage!

[@SpongeBobNumber1Fan2003]

@@miaalmeida4787 Thanks

[@beardedchimp]

@@miaalmeida4787 I was born in the 80's and I only truly appreciate Michael Bay transformer films, the absolute peak of cinema. Shame nobody made any decent films before I was born.

[@jeagermeister724]

Very good very nice👍

[@ulrichseiler5028]

Guter Film. Krasse Thematik

[@eoinh1]

A press release issued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005 stated that "Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy (1951) and Neighbours (1952) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories. Benjy, directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda, is the fictional tale of a crippled boy. The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital... Norman McLaren's Neighbours, which today would compete in the Animated Short category, used 'pixelation' - animation using living people - to create an allegory of war."

[@PixelsPolygonsNPetrichor]

First!

[@evenjsteven9014]

The last time I saw this was in Sunday school around 1960. I was probably 4 years old.

[@dxsdominik4269]

How is amazement related to the creativity of the director of this short film?

[@poison_np]

Very good Vidio pls make more!!!!!!!

[@4chanbunny260]

Mom: Go play with the Neighbor's kids The Neighbor's kids:

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

Reminds me a lot of the animated short "Balance".

[@claud1961]

I saw this in HIgh School in the '70s and I never forgot it. I think it is the genesis of the battles between Peter Griffin and the chicken in Family Guy.

[@sanm3londan_th315]

2:34 I like this scene jump on that was funny make me laughter.

[@GetBenched2010]

That escalated quickly...

[@simranjeetsingh4732]

that was savage 😂😂😂

[@tarasyonka6462]

I REMEMBER SEEING THIS VIDEO FROM THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA IN GRADE FOUR.

[@lemisanthrope]

This movie is very good for René Girard anthropology.

[@mathieugariepy2948]

In 1952, Canada had fought in WW2 a few years ago and was curently fighting in Korea.

[@dancingvirgil]

Yep they were fighting so long they forgot what they were fighting for.😢

[@FoxRiverBridge]

The first GMod animation

[@gustavoceballos5327]

It’s a tie at the end

[@ralpholson1371]

this is thee most disturbing and traumatizing film we've/i've ever seen as a kid/children..they shoulda warned us..i still see the horrible violent image of the soccer kicked baby..omg!..thanks for the memories NFB....lol :P

[@JimTheZombieHunter]

Odd, upon rediscovering this short I was just commenting to a friend that I was surprised that we DIDN'T really .. seem to process the actual depiction for what it was as children. For me it was much more disturbing as an adult of 50, as in "Did I really just see that?" For more messed up nostalgia, search Zoopsie - another NFB classic.

[@ingridweber2887]

feel exactly the same way

[@xomchonggiachongdep]

So funny, though its long before but still meaningful

[@elisageraldine3157]

El esfuerzo que llevó hacer esto uffffff

[@shellyjustice7227]

You see how the film is symbolic , fighting over ownership of natural resources, which belongs to neither side, can start a war

[@jezebeljones659]

Uh huh. Isn't that true right this moment, in 2023, in many parts of the world? McLaren was the sh-t!

[@mahdi-qu9xq]

And people call them WAR HEROES

[@ilikecheese3701]

the soldiers were heroes because they were technically forced to go fight, the people who made them fight are the arseholes

[@alinafuchs7233]

sencillamente maravilloso

[@feltongailey8987]

Sometimes I fight with my neighbor over some weed too.

[@ezraschott1876]

"I was inspired to make Neighbours by a stay of almost a year in the People's Republic of China. Although I only saw the beginnings of Mao's revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it. Then I came back to Quebec and the Korean War began. (...) I decided to make a really strong film about anti-militarism and against war." - Norman McLaren I can't imagine a worse footnote than that.

[@UnnamedVibesTree]

...this FEELS like a Kids in the Hall sketch o -o

[@ferociousgumby]

Psychedelic.

[@jaymcdonaldfilms2018]

I spotted a mistake. From 3:50 to 4:00 look behind the man with the blue shirt. You'll see a shadow.

[@dyl_out]

and?

[@flaggerify]

Jay McDonald Films Unavoidable

[@seemeasis]

"Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures,"James 4:1-3 There is hope... "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life," John 3:16.

[@harrychestwigg]

nobody cares! BEAT IT!

[@markdemell3717]

Man has dominated man to his injury.

[@andredelage8732]

@@harrychestwigg no YOU BEAT IT... 26 people seem to care...

[@markymarcm]

The absolute irony that somehow seems to escape you is that so many wars throughout history were fought over religion, specifically the one from whose scriptures you have quoted...

[@beardedchimp]

@seemeasis Great point, you have succinctly demonstrated how religion creates divides that lead to conflict and ultimately war. This story could be understood as two religious zealots proclaiming truth and ownership over a flowered shrine. One shouting your quotes from the bible, the other utterly rejecting them. Subtle point you made, but you clearly demonstrated the danger of trying to force ones religion on others.

[@thebastigamer5008]

Good Film He He■□■

[@ZooomaCW]

"Don't kick the baby." -South Park

[@WARSMAN1000]

Vou mostrar esse vídeo para meus alunos 😂

[@Approxamatrix]

4:13 dude's a stand user

[@cristyrodas]

My teacher showed me this short film!!

[@gmgmgmgm]

Is that the original soundtrack? I just watched this film but it had another music so i wanto to know if this is from the original version.

[@whoisterror]

This is the original soundtrack

[@theprstc]

This is ABSOLUTELY the original soundtrack. It's painted on the film, it's actually a form of synthesis! And whoever changed the soundtrack to some random music should be fined or shot.

[@hklinker]

Actually, I just told that other guy that he should at least tell people up front that he has changed the audio.

[@TNinja0]

So the flower made them high or something

[@wyattbatten1377]

Hey neighbour, heeeey neighbour. That's how it starts.

[@Memily23]

Flowey, the flower

[@kennethmorrison7689]

Poet Robert Frost said: good fences make good neigbours.

[@JohnnyChapman-jp1ej]

The sentiment of the poem is the opposite of that quote. He proposed that fences between neighbors are not necessary.

[@pickofdini5245]

Based on Writer S.Ra Suggestion I amwatching this

[@dankulafan6905]

The short that inspired Extreme to create the music video for Rest In Peace

[@CuttlefishFilm]

I remember when the video first came out, then suddenly the only version shown was without the Norm McLaran inspired stuff. I think they ran into some legal issues with it back then.

[@captainflamingo8748]

Send this movie to Ukraine and Russia

[@ChasePoppingPixels]

I would say Ukraine is the flower that fighting to be left alone. But you do have a point.

[@leekei5929]

Watch this in x2 speed. Its like encountering wild pokemon

[@DarkpoorM]

I watched that movie in 70s in the Egyptian tv but I think it is so strange movie ????!!!!

[@righttorecord3538]

Listen children to a story that was written long ago . . .

[@meliodas7GD]

😮😮

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

Pretty sure that flower is an SCP if it has that effect on the men sniffing it.

[@dr.domingouez3856]

مبدع استمر الله يوفقك

[@ledieuspaghettivolant2074]

This is a 21 th a century meme

[@syzler8664]

People hyping this up and all I see is skill issue from both sides, just win? Lmao