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Synopsis
Canadian animator Norman McLaren helms Neighbours, a 1952 comic short funded by the National Film Board of Canada that comments on postwar suburban attitudes and mores. Stylistically groundbreaking in its day, Neighbours employs an unusual technique that became widespread in successive decades. McLaren animates two live actors (Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro) via stop motion, as one would animate illustrated characters. Ladouceur and Munro play the neighbors of the title, two newspaper-immersed suburbanites seated in opposing lawnchairs, who quarrel over the ownership of a flower. McLaren's unprecedented stylistic approach, the absurd newspaper headlines (one of which reads, "Peace certain if no war," and the other, "War certain if no peace,") and the papier-mache cutout houses behind the actors lend the work a hefty dose of surrealism ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Cast

Grant Munro Neighbor
Jean-Paul Ladouceur Neighbor

Production Crew

Norman McLaren Director
Norman McLaren Producer
Year: 1952
Runtime: 8
Country: Canada
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature


Produced by
National Film Board of Canada

Awards
1952 - Best Documentary Short Subject - Academy
1952 - Best One-Reel Short - Academy
1952 - Best Documentary Short Subject - Academy
1952 - Best One-Reel Short - Academy
1952 - Best Documentary Short Subject - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1952 - Best One-Reel Short - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie