Hen Hop

Hen Hop
Directed byNorman McLaren
Produced byNorman McLaren
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release date
  • 1942 (1942)
Running time
4 minutes
CountryCanada
Languagenone

Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada.[1] 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.[2][3]

To make Hen Hop, McLaren spent days in a chicken coop to capture what he called "the spirit of henliness".[4]

  1. ^ "Hen Hop". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  2. ^ Schaffer, Bill (2005). "The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren". Senses of Cinema (35). Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  3. ^ "Hen Hop". Collection page. National Film Board of Canada. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Fulford, Robert. "Our very own genius". National Post. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2011.