Movies: Norman McLaren

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...

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract....

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada...

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

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