https://www.nfb.ca/film/mr_frog_went_a_courting/
https://www.nfb.ca/film/eleven_moving_moments_with_evelyn_lambart/
This week’s launch on NFB.ca of Donald McWilliams’s film Eleven Moving Moments with Evelyn Lambart (2017), in celebration of International Women’s Day, affords us a fine opportunity to revisit the journey of this exceptional artist. As the first woman animator in the country—and for nearly a quarter-century the only female animation filmmaker. At age six, Evelyn began to experience hearing loss. The condition quickly deteriorated, and within a few years she was nearly deaf. Her parents encouraged her to explore drawing and painting, pursuits that did not depend on her hearing. She developed a taste for and remarkable skill at both art forms, which would serve her well in later years. But her childhood was challenging: she did not have the benefit of a hearing aid, and her teachers failed to take her handicap into account. Evelyn was soon isolated from her classmates and felt excluded from society. In spite of these challenges, she vowed to never be left out, eventually find a job, never marry, and live life to the fullest. At the National Film Board, she would find her place in the sun.After World War II, she made her first film, The Impossible Map (1947), an educational short that brilliantly illustrated the difficulty—indeed the impossibility—of accurately projecting the spherical surface of the Earth onto a flat surface, a problem she had tackled many times when painting maps on glass.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/
With McLaren, she co-directed the superb Rythmetic (1956), Lines: Vertical (1960), Lines: Horizontal (1962) and Mosaic(1965). But their greatest work, inarguably, was Begone Dull Care (1949).Her films from this period include Fine Feathers (1968), The Hoarder (1969) and Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974).The Lion and the Mouse (1976) and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (1980). Evelyn Lambart died in 1999, aged ninety-four.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/begone_dull_care/
https://www.nfb.ca/film/eleven_moving_moments_with_evelyn_lambart/
This week’s launch on NFB.ca of Donald McWilliams’s film Eleven Moving Moments with Evelyn Lambart (2017), in celebration of International Women’s Day, affords us a fine opportunity to revisit the journey of this exceptional artist. As the first woman animator in the country—and for nearly a quarter-century the only female animation filmmaker. At age six, Evelyn began to experience hearing loss. The condition quickly deteriorated, and within a few years she was nearly deaf. Her parents encouraged her to explore drawing and painting, pursuits that did not depend on her hearing. She developed a taste for and remarkable skill at both art forms, which would serve her well in later years. But her childhood was challenging: she did not have the benefit of a hearing aid, and her teachers failed to take her handicap into account. Evelyn was soon isolated from her classmates and felt excluded from society. In spite of these challenges, she vowed to never be left out, eventually find a job, never marry, and live life to the fullest. At the National Film Board, she would find her place in the sun.After World War II, she made her first film, The Impossible Map (1947), an educational short that brilliantly illustrated the difficulty—indeed the impossibility—of accurately projecting the spherical surface of the Earth onto a flat surface, a problem she had tackled many times when painting maps on glass.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/
With McLaren, she co-directed the superb Rythmetic (1956), Lines: Vertical (1960), Lines: Horizontal (1962) and Mosaic(1965). But their greatest work, inarguably, was Begone Dull Care (1949).Her films from this period include Fine Feathers (1968), The Hoarder (1969) and Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974).The Lion and the Mouse (1976) and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (1980). Evelyn Lambart died in 1999, aged ninety-four.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/begone_dull_care/