Norman McLaren Movies

Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.

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

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

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...

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.