Norman McLaren Movies

An opening address, a tribute and highlights of a long and productive career--McLaren on McLaren is Norman McLaren on camera. The occasion is the...

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells,"...

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the...

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm...

Norman McLaren's documentary-style account of how a letter from home reaches a sailor on duty in foreign waters.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a...

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

New Yorkers watch as Norman McLaren's animated promotional film for Canadian tourism plays on the giant pixelboard overlooking Times Square. The...

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

An hand drawn animation merged from two originally separate films. (The films were originally drawn in 1940)

In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types...

Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.