Around Is Around

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

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CinemaSerf

There is something mesmerisingly artistic about this cleverly crafted animation. There’s a creative oscillographer (Chester Beachill) credited as it opens and it’s clear to see his scientific influences on Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart as the wobbling graphs and pulsations that sometimes symmetr...

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