This is an artsy film from the DVD collection entitled "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941". Most of the films are shorts that hold little interest to the average viewer and instead are of interest to historians, lovers of early art films and cinemaniacs like myself.
This film from Norman McLaren (who was VERY prolific with the National Film Board of Canada) was made for NBC Television--yes, television. In 1940, there must have been only a few hundred televisions--if even that many. It was VERY experimental and perhaps this is why the NBC folks were willing to try something as odd as McLaren's little thank you to the viewers. It consists of words and images that are hand-drawn onto the film and shown (I assume) in negative. It's all very odd but may just be one of the earliest made for TV films there is.
This film from Norman McLaren (who was VERY prolific with the National Film Board of Canada) was made for NBC Television--yes, television. In 1940, there must have been only a few hundred televisions--if even that many. It was VERY experimental and perhaps this is why the NBC folks were willing to try something as odd as McLaren's little thank you to the viewers. It consists of words and images that are hand-drawn onto the film and shown (I assume) in negative. It's all very odd but may just be one of the earliest made for TV films there is.
