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Norman McLaren’s 1952 animation ‘Neighbours’ (Voisins) won the Academy Award for best short documentary – despite its violence and crude animation. He intended it as a statement against war and violence, although the entire film could not be shown whole until anti-Vietnam War sentiment created an atmosphere where it could be shown as above. Interestingly, the film is not a true animation – most of it is filmed and played at different speeds. Nevertheless the scenes when the characters seem to float or slide on the grass are animated with a technique McLaren invented and coined the term for: ‘pixillation.’

Neighbours on Wikipedia