Movies: Norman McLaren

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

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

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s....

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

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 island tune by Trinidad's Grand Curacaya Orchestra....

Shows the production of the London telephone directory....

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

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 technique had been planted by seeing Alexandre Alexeïeff’s Night on Bare Mountain in the late thirties....

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

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 to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos....

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren....

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 change--change in the amount and color of light within an otherwise static screen. Normally, the anima...

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to the point of being officially labelled as ‘unfinished,’ even though the explosion of high-intensity stroboscopic image...

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Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren....

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 opening of a prestigious festival in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in November, 1983, marking the tenth anniv...

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

The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart....

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren....