{"id":1091,"date":"2012-04-10T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:37:24","slug":"dots-de-norman-mclaren-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/dots-de-norman-mclaren-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTS de Norman McLaren (1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/?p=1004\"><em>Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/MacLaren Dots 3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In 1941 McLaren continued his experiments with the optical sound technique by modelling the music of <em>Dots.<\/em> Having no budget to record instrumental music, he undertook, as he had already experimented with for <em>Book Bargain<\/em>, to \u201cpaint the sounds\u201d (tiny lines and shapes) with brush and pen directly onto the soundtrack of the film stock. This allowed him to reconnect with his aspirations as an animation filmmaker, at a time when he dreamed of mastering every phase of the making of the cinematic material.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dots - Norman McLaren (1940)\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZFu0Kno7aw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">See Norman McLaren\u2019s documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/?p=1085\"><em>Pen Point Percussion<\/em><\/a> (1950) on the technique of painting sound onto film<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film d&rsquo;animation qui explore les ressources de la peinture sonore sur pellicule<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,53,57,7,6,63],"tags":[11,19,135,12,29],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-featured","category-extrait-video","category-fiche-film","category-les-cloche-datlantis","category-musee-du-son","category-oeuvres-graphiques","tag-cinema-danimation","tag-experimentations-sonores","tag-pionniers-et-precurseurs","tag-synesthesie","tag-synthese-optique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}