Norman McLaren Movies

A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.

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

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

The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

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.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

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

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon...

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen...

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

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

To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.