Norman McLaren Movies

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The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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...

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

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...

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...

The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running...

The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates...

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one...

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

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

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

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The...

An animated victory bond message with the advice, "Don't cash in your bonds."

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

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...