Norman McLaren Movies

This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series....

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

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

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

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

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

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

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

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were...

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

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

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

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.