Norman McLaren Movies

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

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

An attempt to animate an abstract Charlie Chaplin-esque figure.

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

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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...

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film.

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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...

Done during war years. Silent film.

In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.

Made during WWII

"Là-haut sur ces montagnes" sung by Madeleine Lachance is illustrated with drawings and in "C'est l'aviron" a boat sails to the rhythm of the...

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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...