Neighbours
Love your neighbor, meaning, to treat others as you would have them treat you.
1952 | 9m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Norman McLaren |
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| Writer: | Norman McLaren |
| Staring: |
| In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 01, 1952 |
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| Director: | Norman McLaren |
| Writer: | Norman McLaren |
| Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
| Keywords | newspaper, fight, peace, murder, surrealism, stop motion, neighbor, fence, moral, short film, animation |
| Production Companies | ONF | NFB |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Grant Munro | Neighbour on the Right |
| Jean Paul Ladouceur | Neighbour on the Left |
| Name | Job |
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| Clarke Da Prato | Sound |
| Norman McLaren | Writer, Director, Music, Animation |
| Wolf Koenig | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
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| Norman McLaren | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Two neighbours emerge from their homes to sit on deck-chairs reading the same newspaper - with polar opposite headlines, before they become captivated by a dandelion that appears on their shared lawn. Curious, they investigate then both engage in some energetic and slightly surreal acrobatics around ... their garden followed by a slight "discussion" as to the ownership of the flower. Their peaceful co-existence is now threatened by a picket-fence! Is it the end of a beautiful friendship? Well only a fence-post duel and some fisticuffs might decide - assuming, of course, the watching plant decides to stick around or even survives for long enough! There's no dialogue but a quirky and lively, synthesised, soundtrack helps this daft, slightly slapstick, caper along entertainingly to a rather brutal and destructive denouement that did raise a smile. The moral? Well, love thy neighbour of course!