Rock the Boat(1944)

Name: Rock the Boat
Director: Norman McLaren
Genre: Music, Animation
Released: 1944-01-01
Duration: 4 min

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings on black cards were photographed with overlapping ‘zooms’ to suggest the forward movement of a canoe along rivers and lakes. This film appears in Chants populaires no. 5 and in Chants populaires no. 6.