Norman McLaren Movies

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

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

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

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

An animated short film about The Four Seasons by Norman McLaren.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. 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...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one...

This short animation of linear symbols made from paper cutouts was created as a Canadian tourism publicity clip. Projected in New York's Times...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

New Yorkers watch as Norman McLaren's animated promotional film for Canadian tourism plays on the giant pixelboard overlooking Times Square. The...

The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates...

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were...

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

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

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

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.