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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

Everything there is online about SR is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, the document archive, today's SR news and other appearances.

Today's document: The one interesting thing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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The Screening Room / Psychedelic & experimental animation (NFB)

Begone Dull Care

1949 · 8 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Begone Dull Care, 1949]

Colour and shape painted straight onto the film strip, dancing to the Oscar Peterson Trio. Pure visual jazz.

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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COLOUR8 min Neighbours1952 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR5 min Blinkity Blank1955 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR3 min Fiddle-de-dee1947 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR6 min Lines Horizontal1962 · Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart (NFB)

COLOUR5 min Mosaic1965 · Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart (NFB)

COLOUR8 min Spheres1969 · Norman McLaren & René Jodoin (NFB)

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