Norman McLaren Movies

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker 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...

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...

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 first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

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

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

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

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

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...

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

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

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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