''Canon'' is a 1964

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

animated short co-directed by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro that offers a visual representation of the

canon Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as official in a fictional universe by its fan base * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western ca ...

musical form through three animated segments. The soundtrack combines both a recorded classical score by

Eldon Rathburn Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada. Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers",< ...

and electronic sounds produced via synthesizer. ''Canon'' received a

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"Diploma of Merit" in the Arts and Experimental category.

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