Norman McLaren Movies

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

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

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

This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end...

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

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

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

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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

Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells,"...

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

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of...

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...