Norman McLaren Movies

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...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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...

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

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

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

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

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

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

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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