Movies

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

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

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

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 Norman McLaren Animated Film

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...

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...

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

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