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The Magic Canvas

The Magic Canvas

★ 7,0 /10 (2 Votes)
1948 EN 10 min

Overview

A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.

Release date

30/12/1948

Votes

2

Popularity

0.6

A study in movement, form & colour.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

10 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-04-04

⭐ 7

The opening slide gives us an idea as to what is intended here - an abstract ballet depicted through shapes. Initially, these shapes are random, but they evolve into more recognisable and better defined ones: human, animal, vegetable - and much of the pace comes from an evocative score that accompanies the simple but interesting animation. Firstly, a bird flying high, caught in a storm, exhausted but still migrating across land, desert and sea. It encounters an human before reverting back to the abstract and the ending. It's got a slightly evolutionary theme to it, I thought, as it finished pr…

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