Norman McLaren Movies

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

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

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call...

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

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

"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...

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1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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

Done during war years. Silent film.

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