01 January 1942 Animated 3 mins
This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.
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Canada 01 January 1942
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Um Trailer de um dos filmes que MONSTRA - Lisbon Animated Film Festival vai passar no Sol da Caparica. Hen Hop - Norman McLaren.
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27 March 1942
Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.
11 May 1942
A girl leaves her home after the man who left her with a daughter and a young man who falls in love with her protects her from him.
01 June 1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon.
22 June 1942
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
23 May 1942
Lake Patzcuaro, located 230 miles west of Mexico City, is one of the highest and most picturesque bodies of water in Mexico.
10 June 1942
René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre.
17 March 1942
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
14 August 1942
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
06 February 1942
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict.
27 July 1942
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.
20 February 1942
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra.
28 April 1942
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family.
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