INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Drawn-On-Film Animation, Norman Mclaren, Celluloid
10 Dec 2012
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Term not at issue in mid-term: last one from the list (do not bother with it) A documentary is committed to a creative treatment of actuality. Avant-garde cinema rejects established cinematic conventions to expand the possibilities of film. In addition to narrative form, a film can take non-narrative forms. Documentary forms can be rhetorical, categorical or narrative. A film can be a mix of two or more forms (avant-garde can incorporate associational and abstract) Animation is typically characterized by at least one of the 2 following attributes: The presentation of imagery that has no real-world status beyond the filmic universe. The creation of movement through a succession of individual static images. Georges m li s" a trip to the moon = first film to offer the possibility of narrative development. The film retreats from reality to a reality of its own invention.
