Norman McLaren Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

"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.