Norman McLaren Movies

This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end...

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

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...

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.

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

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is...

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

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon...

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

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

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

Done during war years. Silent film.

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...