Norman McLaren Movies

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply...

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

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 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.

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

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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...

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

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

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

A gay fantasia of patterned sound in which Norman McLaren salutes the West Indies, painting the spirit of fiesta on film to the lively beat of an...