Norman McLaren Movies

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

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

A gay fantasia of patterned sound in which Norman McLaren salutes the West Indies, painting the spirit of fiesta on film to the lively beat of an...

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

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

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

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

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

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

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...

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 animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...

This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series....

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.