Canon (film)

Canon
Directed byNorman McLaren
Grant Munro
Produced byNorman McLaren
CinematographyRobert Humble
Music byEldon Rathburn
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryCanada

Canon is a 1964 National Film Board of Canada animated short co-directed by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro that offers a visual representation of the canon musical form through three animated segments. The soundtrack combines both a recorded classical score by Eldon Rathburn and electronic sounds produced via synthesizer.

The film uses object animation as cubes moves in checkboards and it also use non-camera animation as only four peoples doing gestures.