Hen Hop

Hen Hop
Directed by	Norman McLaren
Produced by	Norman McLaren
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release date	1942
Running time	4 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	none

Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short by Norman McLaren, in which 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 , with colour added optically afterwards.

To make Hen Hop, McLaren spent days in a chicken coop to capture what he called "the spirit of henliness." The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Pablo Picasso was reported to have exclaimed “at last something new” upon viewing this film. Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk, reproduces part of the film as well as quotes from McLaren about making Hen Hop his 1997 work, I Move, So I Am.

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