Movies

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Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

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...

An animated victory bond message with the advice, "Don't cash in your bonds."

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

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

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

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

This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call...

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

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film.

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

In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.

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"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.