Norman McLaren Movies

This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call...

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

Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.

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...

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

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

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...

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

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"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...

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1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Done during war years. Silent film.