Norman McLaren Movies

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

An animated short film about The Four Seasons by Norman McLaren.

Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film.

In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included...

This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen...

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

Amateur footage, probably filmed by Norman McLaren, of a group of his friends on a visit to his parents' home in Stirling.

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...

In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which "boogie" played by Albert Ammons and "doodle" drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a...

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.