Norman McLaren Movies

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...

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

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

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of...

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is...

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

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...

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one...

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...

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

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...

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren.

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

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

Made during WWII

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.