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Boogie-Doodle is a 1940 drawn-on-film visual music short by Norman McLaren, set to the boogie-woogie music of African-American jazz pianist Albert Ammons.

Though released by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941, Boogie-Doodle was actually made by McLaren in New York City in 1940, a year before he was invited by John Grierson to Canada to found the NFB's animation unit. McLaren, who had been influenced by the hand-painted films of Len Lye, was in New York exploring the technique on a grant from the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, creating Boogie-Doodle along with three other cameraless films: Dots, Loops and Stars and Stripes.

The animation in Boogie-Doodle coincides exactly with Ammon's musical piece, with McLaren's animation beginning at the very first bar and concluding at the final note.

References

1. Bill Kirchner, ed. (May 2005). The Oxford Companion to Jazz. Oxford University Press. p. 771. ISBN 978-0-19-518359-7.
2. Ian Conrich; Estella Ticknell (July 1, 2007). Film's Musical Moments. Edinburgh University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7486-2345-7.
3. Ortega, Marcos (July 16, 2006). "Norman McLaren: The Master's Edition". Experimental Cinema. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
4. Beckerman, Howard (February 2004). Animation: The Whole Story. Allworth Press. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9.
5. The Undercut Reader: Critical Writing on Artists' Film and Video. Wallflower Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-903364-47-5.

External links

• Watch Boogie-Doodle on the NFB website
• Boogie-Doodle at IMDb 

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