nfb lends animation artwork to LA’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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Montreal – The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles recently showcased legendary National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animation—with Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart’s Begone Dull Care and Ishu Patel’s Paradise featured as part of Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation. The gallery takes visitors on a journey through animation, highlighting nearly a century of animation history, as told through the stories of diverse filmmakers. “I’m thrilled that the Academy Museum of …

Talking about legend Norman McLaren

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Ottawa – The young Norman McLaren began his filmmaking career in 1934, and the following year, two of his films won prizes at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, where John Grierson offered him a job at the General Post Office Film Unit in London. In 1941, at the invitation of Grierson, who had become Canada’s first Government Film Commissioner, McLaren …