Norman McLaren Movies

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which "boogie" played by Albert Ammons and "doodle" drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a...

An hand drawn animation merged of Colors.

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

Norman McLaren's first film with a drawn soundtrack.

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

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

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The...

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...

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

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were...

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a...

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

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.