while Begone Dull Care is often credited to just Normal McLaren…. it was 
actually a collaborative work with Evelyn Lambart…

let’s not forget the ladies who worked on the films.






> On Dec 1, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It wasn’t expressionist, but McClaren’s “Begone Dull Care” (1949), set to 
> Oscar Peterson jazz, is a classic of the visual music genre, and deservedly 
> so. Interesting for someone who, as you point out, made mostly figure-based 
> work.
> 
> 
> On December 1, 2017 at 1:22:03 PM, Myron Ort ([email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>) wrote:
> 
>> Norman McLaren  to my knowledge made mostly very “figure” based  imagery 
>> (often cute). Len Lye  was more to my liking, however he still was making 
>> figurative based gestures dancing around to music. I was narrowing my 
>> question down to (extended) “abstract expressionist” film painting, rather 
>> than the more general area of camerless filmmaking overall. Man Ray also 
>> pioneered some techniques in this realm but I was referring more to 
>> “expressionist” style film painting that would later become  something Stan 
>> Brakhage explored extensively, however never without asserting that there 
>> was a correlative metaphoric quasi “narrative" involved. Later he would call 
>> it “moving visual thinking”.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Kit Basquin <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Norman McLaren, who was from Scotland but worked for the Canadian Film 
>>> Board most of his life.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Myron Ort <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected] 
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>>> Sent: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 3:05 pm
>>> Subject: [Frameworks] Painting directly to film
>>> 
>>> Can anyone site an example of “abstract expressionist” painting onto film 
>>> prior to 1968?  (Hopefully with online viewing availability).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://vimeo.com/220986135 <https://vimeo.com/220986135>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Myron Ort
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>>> 
>>> 
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