Norman McLaren Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply...

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

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

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

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

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...

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

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

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

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

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