Boogie-Doodle

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| name = Boogie-Doodle

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| director = Norman McLaren

| producer = Norman McLaren

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| music = Albert Ammons

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| distributor = National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

| released = {{Film date|1940}}

| runtime = 4 minutes

| country = Canada

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Boogie-Doodle is a 1940 drawn-on-film visual music short by Norman McLaren, set to the boogie-woogie music of African-American jazz pianist Albert Ammons.{{cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to Jazz|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-518359-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIyO-dQwkDwC&q=Boogie-Doodle+ammons&pg=PA711|editor=Bill Kirchner |page=771 |date=May 2005}}{{cite book|title=Film's Musical Moments|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-2345-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZS5vb7nQ_UC&q=Boogie-Doodle+ammons&pg=PA22|author1=Ian Conrich |author2=Estella Ticknell|page=22|date=July 1, 2007}}

Though released by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941, Boogie-Doodle was actually made by McLaren in New York City in 1940, a year before he was invited by John Grierson to Canada to found the NFB's animation unit.{{cite web |last=Ortega |first=Marcos |title=Norman McLaren: The Master's Edition|work=Experimental Cinema|url=http://www.expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=22:norman-mclaren-the-masters-edition&Itemid=100001&tmpl=component&print=1&lang=en|access-date=April 1, 2011|date=July 16, 2006}} McLaren, who had been influenced by the hand-painted films of Len Lye, was in New York exploring the technique on a grant from the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, creating Boogie-Doodle along with three other cameraless films: Dots, Loops and Stars and Stripes.{{cite book |last=Beckerman |first=Howard|title=Animation: The Whole Story|publisher=Allworth Press|isbn=978-1-58115-301-9|pages=51–52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjW6cCE4v1QC&q=%22Boogie-Doodle%22&pg=PA52|date=February 2004}}

The animation in Boogie-Doodle coincides exactly with Ammon's musical piece, with McLaren's animation beginning at the very first bar and concluding at the final note.{{cite book|title=The Undercut Reader: Critical Writing on Artists' Film and Video|year=2003|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-903364-47-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VE3MkTTgeBsC&q=Boogie-Doodle+McLaren&pg=PA177}}