Neighbors (1952)

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Movie
Original title Neighbors
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1952
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Norman McLaren
script Norman McLaren
production Norman McLaren
for the National Film Board of Canada
music Norman McLaren
Clarke Daprato
camera Wolf Koenig
occupation

Neighbors , French title Voisins , is a Canadian short film by Norman McLaren from 1952. In 2007, the film was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .

action

Two neighbors sit on a meadow in front of their houses and read the newspaper. Suddenly a flower grows on the border between the two properties. The two men smell the flower and are carried away. Both want the flower and claim that it is on their property. They draw fences to prove their thesis, try to get the flower with tricks and finally use violence. They fight, start a sword fight with pickets and brutalize more and more. In the end, they destroy each other's house, kill the neighbour's wife and child, and end up killing each other in a fight. They crushed the flower completely. Two coffins appear in the meadow and the fence forms the new border of the grave. Two fence slats each form a grave cross on the coffins and one flower becomes two, each of which lies on the coffin. The film ends with the moral that one should love one's neighbor.

production

Neighbors was one of the first films to be made in pixilation (single frame switching). The animated filmmakers Grant Munro and Jean Paul Ladouceur, who worked for the NFB, appeared as actors. The scenes in which the men murder the women and children were removed for distribution in the USA and Europe. It was not until 1969 that the film was restored to its original version.

Awards

Neighbors received an Oscar in 1953 in the category “ Best Documentary Short Film ”. He was also nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Short Film (One Film Role ) ", but could not prevail against Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer .

The film won a special award at the Canadian Film Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA ( United Nations Award ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neighbors, animated, directed and produced by Norman McLaren in 1952. UNESCO - Memory of the World, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ See tiff.net