Movies: Norman McLaren

"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 melody in a nostalgic and distant landscape....

A Norman McLaren Animated Film...

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

An hand drawn animation merged from two originally separate films. (The films were originally drawn in 1940)...

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to the point of being officially labelled as ‘unfinished,’ even though the explosion of high-intensity stroboscopic image...

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

Done during war years. Silent film....

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings on black cards were photographed with overlapping ‘zooms’ to suggest the forward movement of a canoe a...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy....

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

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the message "Will you be our Valentine?"...

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a technique had been planted by seeing Alexandre Alexeïeff’s Night on Bare Mountain in the late thirties....