Movies: Norman McLaren

  • 1943
    Dollar Dance

    Dollar Dance (1943)

    Dollar Dance

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    This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen drawings made directly on 35mm film stock. Music is by Louis Applebaum, a leading composer and advoca...

    Dollar Dance
  • 2006
    Pen Drawings

    Pen Drawings (2006)

    Pen Drawings

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    Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film....

    Pen Drawings
  • 1977
    Animated Motion: Part 2

    Animated Motion: Part 2 (1977)

    Animated Motion: Part 2

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    In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types of acceleration and deceleration are demonstrated, and examples are shown of how these types of moti...

    Animated Motion: Part 2
  • 2003
    Six and Seven-Eighths

    Six and Seven-Eighths (2003)

    Six and Seven-Eighths

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    Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music....

    Six and Seven-Eighths
  • 1959
    Mail Early for Christmas

    Mail Early for Christmas (1959)

    Mail Early for Christmas

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    In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included the occasional "subliminal" burst of lettering, which he hand-scratched on a few frames....

    Mail Early for Christmas
  • 2006
    McLaren and Space

    McLaren and Space (2006)

    McLaren and Space

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    The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren....

    McLaren and Space
  • 1939
    The Obedient Flame

    The Obedient Flame (1939)

    The Obedient Flame

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

    The Obedient Flame
  • 1950
    Pas de deux 5

    Pas de deux 5 (1950)

    Pas de deux 5

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    An hand drawn animation merged of abstract....

    Pas de deux 5
  • 1960
    Test B For Synchromy

    Test B For Synchromy (1960)

    Test B For Synchromy

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    Test B For Synchromy
  • 2006
    Tanguy Landscape Test

    Tanguy Landscape Test (2006)

    Tanguy Landscape Test

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

    Tanguy Landscape Test
  • 1983
    McLaren on McLaren

    McLaren on McLaren (1983)

    McLaren on McLaren

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    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 opening of a prestigious festival in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in November, 1983, marking the tenth anniv...

    McLaren on McLaren
  • 1958
    Blackbird

    Blackbird (1958)

    Blackbird

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

    Blackbird
  • 1959
    Serenal

    Serenal (1959)

    Serenal

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    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 island tune by Trinidad's Grand Curacaya Orchestra....

    Serenal
  • 1935
    Camera Makes Whoopee

    Camera Makes Whoopee (1935)

    Camera Makes Whoopee

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    Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself....

    Camera Makes Whoopee
  • 2006
    The Art of Motion

    The Art of Motion (2006)

    The Art of Motion

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    The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren....

    The Art of Motion
  • 2006
    The Seasons

    The Seasons (2006)

    The Seasons

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

    The Seasons
  • 1950
    The Seasons

    The Seasons (1950)

    The Seasons

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    An animated short film about The Four Seasons by Norman McLaren....

    The Seasons
  • 1949
    A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949

    A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949 (1949)

    A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949

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    Produced for the National Film Board of Canada...

    A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949
  • 1936
    Hell Unltd

    Hell Unltd (1936)

    Hell Unltd

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

    Hell Unltd
  • 1937
    Book Bargain

    Book Bargain (1937)

    Book Bargain

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    Shows the production of the London telephone directory....

    Book Bargain