Norman McLaren Movies

Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.

An animated victory bond message with the advice, "Don't cash in your bonds."

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....

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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

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

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...

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

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Done during war years. Silent film.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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...

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

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...

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types...

Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply...