Synchromy

Animation by Norman McLaren from 1971 created by using an optical film printer

[@poughkeepsiejohn1]

I've always believed that short films can be---and often ARE---better than most full-length movies. Here's a great example of that. McLaren was one trippy dude!

[@pegbars]

These are hand-painted soundtracks. Phenomenal!

[@CSGraves]

Yep, must have been a grueling task, but McLaren was a genius for such things. The ultimate music video... the music IS the video!

[@tt2547]

it's like an addiction......just can't get enough of this!!!

[@plasticspaces]

I remember watching a copy of this alone on16 mil in a little screening room at Langara Collage, my first year of art school. At the time I picked by a short description in a catalog. This film changed the way I thought about light, sound, animation and painting.

[@brunomoreiralima1296]

Illustration composer... This guy was something!

[@torch3]

It reminded me of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

[@hotelmario510]

The beginning sounds like a game of Pong gradually going insane.

[@teknotribes]

Just saw this film projected in a theatre last night! Mindblowing!

[@inceptional]

Yeah he actually painted, scratched etc, the sound marks directly onto the strip of film reel to create the sounds. He was indeed a genius and pioneer.

[@barringtoncomesalive]

That was amazing. Hypnotic and ground breaking, I think this is my favourite, boogie doodle was pretty close though. It made me think of the first ever modem being born. I cant wait to show this to people.

[@oalternativo]

A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Music and animation are fantastic. A perfect match. And it did remind me of my old Atari...

[@brunomoreiralima1296]

Super Mario owes him his life! Hehehe

[@thedemiLO]

He also created the music by drawing images to be inserted in the sound tract. He ended up with six "synthetic" octaves which he composed this film entirely of.

[@missesmia2]

Yeah this gave me a sore throat during camp too!

[@andros1984]

This reminds me of when my Atari 2600 glitched out back in the day.

[@juanacasas]

¡Toma, ya! ¡Hipnótico y adictivo!

[@beergnome]

essentially? its all painted by hand on the raw film stock, visuals and audio data. then run through a optical printer to combine the audio with the visual. this film is from 1971, so I'm going to assume the audio playback device is a moog of some sort

[@missesmia2]

This made me miss my bowling trip in camp, because i wantched this im not joking!

[@TheTavo1980]

Traslate: Al principio, esa muestra me parecía muy extraña, ademas de esos sonidos de video juego, pero es una maravilla animada. Felicidades Norman Mc laren. R.I.P Synchromy, National Film Board of Canada, Copyright 1971

[@vfnk]

so, so awsome

[@samd77666]

watch this at x2 speed

[@superchat9000]

@teknotribes you're lucky! I'd love to see this in a cinema & lots of McLaren's other films

[@bhc]

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[@L-in-Fabula]

such a sad sad man

[@Fsbof90]

My comment was a reply to an earlier post, I don't find this film any boring myself. Stupid KZbin doesn't always put the replies under the post... A problem that's getting quite annoying...

[@CaptainBuzzBee]

The short Mclarens Negatives shows a bit of the process

[@oreokookie1000]

Remarkably similar to a mushroom trip.

[@Blude]

disturbing and yet interesting though

[@sonovac2006]

amazing! kawaii

[@diskochimp]

Wow, it's a real cliche to say this, but... seeing this stuff again takes me back to when I was a kid...

[@carlosgonzalezhidalgo]

Muy, muy bueno, yo se que los que saben de acústica y armonía lo van a entender mejor

[@theskullraider5058]

Imagine Night of Nights played this way

[@beergnome]

oh, absolutly! I find this piece just... an expresion of modern abstract art.. on film.. the only reason I mention a moog because of the tone sounds being generated are very... moogish... but yes.. all the sounds are hand drawn to the visuals.. sorry.. the visual track and the audio track are still seperate.. it's the confines of the media.... wait..never mind.. I get it now.. it's all square waves and completly possible with an optical printer.

[@illuminatioracle]

no whammy....no whammy...no whammy...STOP!

[@IxCloudxIx]

THIS IS AMAZING. seriously how did he do this?

[@EggmanRobotnik]

I'm sure he made that after trying a computer game...

[@rhunt2363]

According to A.L. Rees this was made in 1957...

[@kathaluna]

makes me feel tipsy.

[@missesmia2]

Moogish...

[@Mazurka1001]

Oh, yeah, when they communicate with the starship...LOL...

[@missesmia2]

I feel dizzy. =P

[@Fsbof90]

Mostly rectangles actually.

[@middleofnowhere1313]

it's a bunch of squares.

[@fabricici]

WHO

[@Lorcan.oshanahan]

nine deaf people watched this video

[@EggmanRobotnik]

I'm sure he made that after trying a computer game...