Norman McLaren Movies

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.

Norman McLaren's documentary-style account of how a letter from home reaches a sailor on duty in foreign waters.

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

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...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...

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...

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

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

New Yorkers watch as Norman McLaren's animated promotional film for Canadian tourism plays on the giant pixelboard overlooking Times Square. The...

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

This short animation of linear symbols made from paper cutouts was created as a Canadian tourism publicity clip. Projected in New York's Times...

Done during war years. Silent film.

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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