Hen Hop
| Hen Hop | |
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| Directed by | Norman McLaren |
| Produced by | Norman McLaren |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) |
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Running time | 4 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | none |
Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. In it, 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 film stock, 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".