Norman McLaren Movies

"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...

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...

An opening address, a tribute and highlights of a long and productive career--McLaren on McLaren is Norman McLaren on camera. The occasion is the...

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

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

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

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates...

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

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...

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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...

This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series....

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

Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren...

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

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...