Norman McLaren Movies

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...

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

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

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...

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

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance...

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....

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

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

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...

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

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 unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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.