Norman McLaren - Loops (1940)

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The titles are in eight languages.
www.imdb.com/ti...

[@jadewarrior6665]

Holy shit this music is so ahead of its time.

[@capprijimenez1011]

JadeWarrior666 yeah this guy who made these films might be a time-traveler or a guy who can predict the future of music

[@merive02]

The sound was drawn

[@malfattio2894]

There were a few Russian animators doing similar stuff in the 30s but it was never this experimental

[@hamburgerlover9825]

this is actually the first recorded instance of musique concrète

[@aidanyakymyshyn9636]

so ahead of the curve wtf howw

[@LilypondMovie]

So THAT'S where they got the Space Odyssey music from

[@toraimanchester4658]

@@herr_crustovsky 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MattMcIrvin]

Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" (used as the theme from "2001") predates this; it's from 1896, but the similarity isn't a coincidence--it comes from the fact that "Zarathustra" begins with a process of constructing the Western musical scale out of its simplest elements, starting with the fifth and the octave, and those would also be the simplest intervals to construct if you were directly drawing sound onto the audio track of a film (3:2 and 2:1 ratios).

[@LilypondMovie]

@@MattMcIrvin was bout to say you must be fun at parties but those were some genuinely fun facts

[@cockatoomagnet583]

Wow. Very mesmerizing.

[@cockatoomagnet583]

This is trippy.

[@stripedhyenuh]

Sounds a bit like ZX Spectrum music.

[@jenniferleyzaola5700]

Yeah even dots 1940 by same creator

[@j.gleidson8797]

Onde é que eu tou home?

[@mynameiswhat268]

The intro has more languages. But which Spanish is written in the intro title? European, Mexican or Argentinian?

[@chuanxianlin2424]

I think is a normal spanish xD AM from ecuador but I live in argentina so, it's a neutral spanish ;3

[@ghostexits]

the introductory credits score seems to have been composed on an analog synthesizer in the late 60s or early 70s, and I'm guessing has no direct connection to Norman McLaren. I was a little confused the first time watching this clip, until the actual film begins.

[@malfattio2894]

He actually painted the sound directly on to the film czcams.com/video/Q0vgZv_JWfM/video.html

[@misterartist1603]

Yeah i think the introduction and cards were added later, and the actual film was from 1940.

[@ghostexits]

@@misterartist1603 it’s a little misleading at first, as the introduction, with its own composed music, takes up the first half of the program. Not to take anything away from the innovative film score. But I have a feeling some people might be reacting to the familiar sounds of a sequenced analog synthesizer in the first half minute.

[@tsuwaque]

Sounds like the gamecube intro

[@SamuelPuffin26]

0:29 spot sans

[@spencerswaine2032]

Stereolab

[@adamwatson2914]

Farting squiggles!

[@notavailabe]

Sounds like the early concept for the Game Cube startup lol

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

This song brought to you by The Whoopee Cushions

[@TheJustinator]

I'm surprised they put in every single language at the start.

[@completedoofus111]

2:30 yo

[@UndMasMut]

ORIGINS OF DUBSTEP O-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thomasdebercey1709]

They sound like farts lol

[@cyberpowerjohn]

"Okay, who's farting?"

[@felixvanhollow9794]

Fart Loops Cereal: the movie

[@AlexeyGotovtsev]

WHO IS FARTING IN FILM??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????