Hen Hop (1942)
3m
Running Time
January 1, 1942Release Date
Hen Hop (1942)
3m
Running Time
January 1, 1942Release Date
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Plot.
This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.
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FreeCurrently Hen Hop is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: NFB
Streaming in:🇨🇦 Canada
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Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. In it, a hen gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dance.
One of a number of drawn-on-film animated works created by McLaren, Hen Hop was animated by inking and scraping film stock, with colour added optically afterwards.To make Hen Hop, McLaren spent days in a chicken coop to capture what he called "the spirit of henliness".