FIVE FOR FOUR

Directed by Norman McLaren · 1942

To a rollicking boogie-woogie piano, symbols drawn directly onto 35mm film dance across the screen in a wartime appeal urging Canadians to save.

Three minutes of Norman McLaren's drawn-on-film wizardry, jiving to Albert Ammons' boogie-woogie piano.

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance against a simple painted background. The score is "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie,"

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