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.
Reception
Hen Hop received a Special Award at the 1949 World Film Festival in Brussels. Upon viewing it, Pablo Picasso was reported to have exclaimed "at last something new". 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. ==References==