Abstraction a cikin sabis na ilimin fasaha na yara.
Fina-finan yaran da muka zaba ba musamman aka yi musu ba. Muna ba da gajeren fina-finai waɗanda yara, a makaranta ko tare da iyali, ba sa samun damar ganowa cikin sauƙi, amma waɗanda suka dace da ƙananan yara. Fina-finan na daraktan Kanada sun zama misali mai kyau a wannan fanni.
McLaren (1914 – 1987), wanda aka yi la’akari da shi ɗaya daga cikin manyan mashahuran silima mai rai, ɗan fim ne mai ƙirƙira sosai. Ya ba da kulawa ta musamman ga raye-raye da motsi kuma ya gwada dabaru da yawa kamar su goge fim, zanen fim, aikin rayuwa, dakatar da motsi, pixilation har ma da zane-zane.
A cikin fim din "Dots" alal misali, ya zana hotuna, amma har da sauti, tare da alkalami, kai tsaye a kan fim din, ba tare da kyamara ko na'urar rikodi ba.
Darakta da mai raye-raye, Oscar wanda ya lashe kyautar a 1953 tare da fim ɗin "Maƙwabta" (Oscar don mafi kyawun ɗan gajeren fim ɗin fim), babban adadi a wurin wasan kwaikwayo.
Ya yi aiki a Hukumar Fina-Finai ta Kanada (NFB) tsakanin 1941 zuwa 1983 kuma ya ba da umarni kusan fina-finai 60 a sahun gaba na cinema, wanda aka yiwa alama ta zane-zane, kiɗa, rawa da motsi. An saka fina-finan a cikin UNESCO ta International Memory of the World Register a 2009.
Don kallon gajerun fina-finan darektan kyauta, zaku iya ziyartar gidan yanar gizon National Film Board of Canada.

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Norman McLaren bai yi fina-finansa na raye-raye don yara ba amma a cikin mahallin gwaji kuma fina-finansa ba labari ba ne, amma filastik, kiɗa da ƙima.
Duk da haka, fim ɗin gwaji bai dace da fim ɗin yara ba kuma waƙoƙin fina-finai suna da kyau ga abin mamaki da farkawa ta fasaha.
Wasan launuka, siffofi da sautuna, asali na kiɗa, ba ku damar gano duniyoyi daban-daban kuma suna sa yara su so su gwada.
NFB ya ƙirƙiri aikace-aikacen ban mamaki: "Bita na McLaren". Musamman, zaku iya kallon litattafai 51 da fina-finai na gaskiya 11 kyauta.
Yara za su iya yin nasu fina-finai masu raye-raye ta hanyar amfani da abubuwan takarda da asalin asali wanda babban classicsa, blackbird ya kirkira.

Sauke aikace-aikacen L'Atelier McLaren
Shin ɗalibanku sun ji daɗin gajerun fina-finan Norman McLaren? Shin kun yi karatun fim a cikin aji, jerin abubuwan raye-raye, fim ɗin rawa? Shin kun san sauran masu gudanarwa na gwaji waɗanda ke aiki akan rhythm, motsi, dangantakar dake tsakanin hotuna da kiɗa? Abstract fina-finai, fina-finan game da rawa?
Taimaka mana gano wasu gajerun fina-finai kamar fim ɗin "Pas de deux", "Boogie-Doodle" ko "Le Merle"!