Norman McLaren Movies

In this early film Norman McLaren shot crystal formations through a low-power microscope, using polarized light with the lower part of the picture...

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

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

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

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

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

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew...

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

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

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

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

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

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...

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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...

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.