ZGEORGESS, MELIES First Wizard of Ciqema (1896~1913) HOMAGE TO GEORGES MELE: ty Norman Mclaren NOTES ON THE WORK OF GEORGES MELIES vy John Prazer Foreword John Grierson once famously remarked that Canad § most important exports were wheat and Horman MeLaren, Mclaren made experimental Rms for Ay years, ory tree of them forthe Fationat Flim Board of Canada, and his mag- hifcent boy of work slands hgh among inoduat accomplstments in all of ‘ines. When Henn Langios asked Mclaren to preside ove a session on Georges Neliés at the Second International festival of Fis of Tomorrow at Zurich Sultzerland, McLaren dectined due fo the pressure of work and the long distance Involved lower he sent the olowing tute asa sound recording. Me recording has apparently been tost, but the writen text was preserued and gractously ‘alven for this fet English publcaion by Donald MeWilams, McLaren's one time assistant biographer, and rector of The Creative Process: Norman Melaren (1990), Later scholarship has puta fine point on some of McLaren's information about Malis, but these remarks ae deeply moving fori clear that MeLaren i thinking of himself a spiritual her to Mis, and much of wha he says about Misi also MeLaren’s oun artistic manifest. 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