Norman McLaren Movies

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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...

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the...

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

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

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

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...

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

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...

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, 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...

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