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Uncommon card · History
Norman McLaren, an Uncommon card
William Norman McLaren was a Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.
- McLaren was also an artist and printmaker, and explored his interest in dance in his films.
- His films garnered numerous awards, including one Oscar, one Palme d'Or, three BAFTA Awards and six Venice Film Festival awards.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Norman McLaren article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Norman McLaren
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Norman McLaren (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jack Long/National Film Board of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
