Norman McLaren Movies

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the...

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

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

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The...

An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...

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...

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...

A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.

Done during war years. Silent film.

A color cocktail by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, translating into moving patterns of color and light the moods of music written for a jazz...

In this early film Norman McLaren shot crystal formations through a low-power microscope, using polarized light with the lower part of the picture...