Norman McLaren Movies
- 1952
Neighbours
Neighbours7.4911952HD
In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors....
- 1957
A Chairy Tale
A Chairy Tale6.71957HD
An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
- 1949
Begone Dull Care
Begone Dull Care6.71949HD
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....
- 1952
A Phantasy
A Phantasy6.11952HD
An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...
- 1940
Spook Sport
Spook Sport5.91940HD
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...
- 1968
Pas de Deux
Pas de Deux6.4851968HD
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.
- 1940
Dots
Dots61940HD
An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...
- 1955
Blinkity Blank
Blinkity Blank6.2231955HD
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...
- 1962
Lines: Horizontal
Lines: Horizontal6.11962HD
An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...
- 1941
V for Victory
V for Victory51941HD
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm...
- 2024
Daedalus
Daedalus102024HD
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...
- 1961
Opening Speech
Opening Speech6.71961HD
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
- 1971
Synchromy
Synchromy6.61971HD
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running...
- 1943
Chants populaires nº 5
Chants populaires nº 551943HD
Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren...
- 1959
Short and Suite
Short and Suite61959HD
A color cocktail by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, translating into moving patterns of color and light the moods of music written for a jazz...
- 1944
Rock the Boat
Rock the Boat5.61944HD
One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...
- 1944
Keep Your Mouth Shut
Keep Your Mouth Shut61944HD
This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end...
- 1983
Narcissus
Narcissus5.21983HD
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...
- 1943
Barrel Zoom
Barrel Zoom01943HD
Images supered on a revolving barrel.
- 1936
Defence of Madrid
Defence of Madrid01936HD
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...