Begone, Dull Care (1949)

Director	Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert
Producer	National Film Board of Canada
Contributors	Music by the Oscar Peterson Trio
Length	9 min
B&W/Color	color
UO Library Catalog description:	A phantasmagoria of images that interpret the jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio. In each of three movements, ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie, an unending variety of colors, forms, figures, and lines dance to the music.
Call #	FILM Ma82
Genre	experimental
Rare	no
Online	yes; YouTube
Copyright status	protected
Physical condition	fair
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

As with most NFBC films, the DVD rights are still active. French title, Caprice En Couleurs. An elegant and mysteriously pleasant abstract animation made by painting directly onto 35mm film – sort of the proto-proto-prototype to Windows Media Visualizer, but a lot more labor-intensive. Really a beautiful synesthetic object. Happily, the UO library owns it on DVD as part of a compilation, and it is well-anthologized as well.