Hen Hop

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| director = Norman McLaren

| producer = Norman McLaren

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| distributor = National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

| released = {{Film date|1942}}

| runtime = 4 minutes

| country = Canada

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Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada.{{cite web |title=Hen Hop |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=10808 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=27 February 2023}} In it, a hen gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dance.

One of a number of drawn-on-film animated works created by McLaren, Hen Hop was animated by inking and scraping film stock, with colour added optically afterwards.{{cite journal |last=Schaffer |first=Bill |title=The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren|journal=Senses of Cinema |year=2005 |issue=35 |access-date=March 16, 2011 |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/cteq/norman_mclaren/ }}{{cite web|title=Hen Hop|work=Collection page|publisher=National Film Board of Canada |url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=10808 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706181931/http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=10808}}

To make Hen Hop, McLaren spent days in a chicken coop to capture what he called "the spirit of henliness".{{cite news|last=Fulford|first=Robert|title=Our very own genius|url=https://nationalpost.com/story.html?id=ca465693-7d76-4964-9f2f-8c8291fa9c31&k=18586 |access-date=March 17, 2011|newspaper=National Post|authorlink=Robert Fulford (journalist)|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129124144/http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=ca465693-7d76-4964-9f2f-8c8291fa9c31&k=18586 |archive-date=January 29, 2013}}