Norman McLaren Movies

In this early film Norman McLaren shot crystal formations through a low-power microscope, using polarized light with the lower part of the picture...

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees is a 1970 documentary exploring the career of Norman McLaren, a Scots-Canadian animator known for his pioneering work in...

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Alexandre Alexeïeff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren illustrated "C'est...

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

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

An attempt to animate an abstract Charlie Chaplin-esque figure.

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

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

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of...

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...

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...

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

A gay fantasia of patterned sound in which Norman McLaren salutes the West Indies, painting the spirit of fiesta on film to the lively beat of an...

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

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.