Norman McLaren Movies

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

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew...

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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...

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

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

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

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

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