Norman McLaren Movies

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet...

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

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the...

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

Done during war years. Silent film.

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...

Rythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart where numbers are the main characters.

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...

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

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

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

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

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

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