''Hen Hop'' is a 1942
drawn-on-film animation short by
Norman McLaren, in which a
hen
Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman.
Hen or Hens may also refer to:
Places Norway
*Hen, Buskerud, a village in Ringer ...
gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a
barn dance. One of a number of
drawn-on-film animated works created by McLaren, ''Hen Hop'' was animated by inking and scraping
film stock, with colour added optically afterwards.
To make ''Hen Hop'', McLaren spent days in a
chicken coop to capture what he called "the spirit of henliness." The film was produced by the
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 ...
.
Reception
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
was reported to have exclaimed "at last something new" upon viewing this film. Dutch animator
Gerrit van Dijk
Gerrit van Dijk (5 December 1938 – 4 December 2012) was a Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter.
Biography
Gerrit van Dijk was born in a pious Catholic family in the village of Volkel, in the municipality of Uden. He studied as a fif ...
, reproduces part of the film as well as quotes from McLaren about making ''Hen Hop'' his 1997 work, ''I Move, So I Am''.
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References
External links
Watch ''Hen Hop'' at NFB.ca
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1942 films
1942 short films
1942 animated films
1940s Canadian films
1940s animated short films
Drawn-on-film animated films
Canadian animated short films
Animated musical films
Visual music
Abstract animation
National Film Board of Canada animated short films
Animated films about chickens
Films set in Canada
Films set on farms
Films set in 1942
Animated films without speech
Films directed by Norman McLaren
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