Norman McLaren Movies
- 1990
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Creative Process: Norman McLaren61990HD
Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...
- 1947
Fiddle-de-dee
Fiddle-de-dee4.81947HD
A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...
- 1943
Snakes
Snakes01943HD
Made during WWII
- 2003
Six and Seven-Eighths
Six and Seven-Eighths32003HD
Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.
- 2006
The Seasons
The Seasons02006HD
In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.
- 1951
Pen Point Percussion
Pen Point Percussion61951HD
A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.
- 1959
Mail Early for Christmas
Mail Early for Christmas3.61959HD
In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included...
- 1977
Animated Motion: Part 4
Animated Motion: Part 451977HD
In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one...
- 1977
Animated Motion: Part 3
Animated Motion: Part 351977HD
The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates...
- 1959
Doors
Doors01959HD
An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.
- 1946
Hoppity Pop
Hoppity Pop3.71946HD
An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....
- 1959
Serenal
Serenal5.21959HD
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...
- 1953
Two Bagatelles
Two Bagatelles5.51953HD
Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...
- 1952
Twirligig
Twirligig61952HD
Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.
- 1972
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren61972HD
- 1944
Alouette
Alouette5.71944HD
This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series....
- 1935
Polychrome Fantasy
Polychrome Fantasy5.11935HD
In this early film Norman McLaren shot crystal formations through a low-power microscope, using polarized light with the lower part of the picture...
- 2006
Birdlings
Birdlings02006HD
This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call...
- 1976
Animated Motion: Part 1
Animated Motion: Part 151976HD
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...
- 2003
On the Farm
On the Farm62003HD
Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.