Norman McLaren Movies

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

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...

Amateur footage, probably filmed by Norman McLaren, of a group of his friends on a visit to his parents' home in Stirling.

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1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

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

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

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.