Norman McLaren Movies

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

"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...

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of...

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

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...

In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included...

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

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types...

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...

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

A Norman McLaren Animated Film

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.