Norman McLaren Movies

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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

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

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

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running...

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

Amateur footage, probably filmed by Norman McLaren, of a group of his friends on a visit to his parents' home in Stirling.

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

Done during war years. Silent film.

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

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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...