Norman McLaren Movies

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

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...

Amateur footage, probably filmed by Norman McLaren, of a group of his friends on a visit to his parents' home in Stirling.

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

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...

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

In this fifth part, Norman McLaren deals not with motion (if motion is defined as a change of location in two- or three-dimensional space) but with...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

This documentary short illustrates the thematic role of war in the works of filmmaker Norman McLaren, from his traumatic experiences in the Spanish...