Norman McLaren Filmes

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...

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...

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

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

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

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...

This documentary short illustrates the thematic role of war in the works of filmmaker Norman McLaren, from his traumatic experiences in the Spanish...

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

"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...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

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1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Done during war years. Silent film.