Norman McLaren Filmes

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

An opening address, a tribute and highlights of a long and productive career--McLaren on McLaren is Norman McLaren on camera. The occasion is the...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...

An hand drawn animation merged from two originally separate films. (The films were originally drawn in 1940)

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

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

This documentary short illustrates the thematic role of war in the works of filmmaker Norman McLaren, from his traumatic experiences in the Spanish...