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The Story Of A Violin 221522-01 | Footage Farm

1,297 views · Published 9 December 2012 · 20:20 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2012 · Film & Animation

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Animation Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
17:01:23  Boy practicing violin by piano in 1950s living room in front of floral drapes & floral lampshade.  MCU grimacing.
17:01:42  Line of boys in short pants w/ baseball bats & ball going to play game; stand outside suburban house window.  Boy stops playing & comes to window; climbs out & leaves w/ boys walking thru grass & arriving at playground.  Captains use bat to decide who is up first in softball game.  Third pitch hit & gets to first.  Violinsts mother comes & takes him away for violin lessen.  He's upset.  Boys confer, plot.
17:03:41  Mother gives boy violin, he leaves carrying case.  Stopped by boy, other kids steal his violin & throw it around.  Truck down street runs over it.  Boy & driver pick up pieces.
17:04:42  Rest of team sitting talking.  Boys march into town to music shop, look in window & go inside.  He takes down violin says it will take three months to make.  Takes one out of safe & shows it to boys; Stradivarius.  
17:05:59  Workbench w/ tools, pieces.  Man knocking on various pieces of wood.  Puts boards in clamp & planes them, then glues pieces together & clamps them.  Marks outline for back; cuts on bandsaw; thins back w/ special chisel.
17:07:37  Boy carrying groceries out to car w/ mother.  Shaving back of violin, then sanding & smoothing.
17:08:40  Soldier buying newspaper from boy, pedestrians crossing street in sun.  Back to carving & shaping violin; marking & cutting grooves around violin back.  Inlaying ebony for strength; treating wood.  Shaping ribs & fitting in mold, aka mould.  Removed.
17:10:55  Working spruce wood for top to shape; cutting holes for sound & polishing; gluing bass bar.  Assembling & gluing body of violin & clamping.
17:12:55  Reviewing parts.  Animated unmaking the violin to show its parts in CUs.
17:16:15  Varnishing.  Boy w/ newspaper bag & bicycle.  Carver continues.  Polishing, assembling peg bar, bridge.
17:18:22  Bowling alley & boy as pinsetter setting pins by hand
17:18:29  Violinmaker assembling sound post, tuning, plaing.  
17:19:19  CU boys around boy dialing rotary telephone; violin maker answers.  They hang up, give money to one boy.  Violin maker holding & looking at violin.  
17:20:04  Boys out of shop w/ violin, down sidewalk, though lawn, up steps & prsent viiolin to Bill.  He plays for them as they sit on couch/  The End.  1947.

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