Norman McLaren Movies

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

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.

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

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

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

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

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

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....

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were...

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

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

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

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...