Norman McLaren Movies

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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...

"Là-haut sur ces montagnes" sung by Madeleine Lachance is illustrated with drawings and in "C'est l'aviron" a boat sails to the rhythm of the...

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

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

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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

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

Advertising cartoon showing advantages of using gas supply and gas cookers.

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

Done during war years. Silent film.

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance...

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

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

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