Neighbours / Voisins

The National Film Board of Canada has produced 70 Oscar-nominated films and 12 have brought home the statue. This year, the NFB's Madame Tutli-Putli is up for Animated Short Film.

Of the 12 to win that award, my favourite is Neighbours / Voisins by Norman McLaren in 1952. From Wikipedia:

Produced at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, the film uses the technique known as 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.

Here it is.

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