Norman McLaren Movies

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

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...

The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates...

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

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...

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

This uncompleted film uses a technique invented by McLaren in the 1930s; the travelling zoom. McLaren's intention was to make the corridor gradually...

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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...

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

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

"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.