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Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.
Most Popular Norman McLaren Trailers
Total trailers found: 115
01 January 1963
A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars in Your Life," "Corral," "Wrestling," and "Neighbors.
01 January 1960
An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.
01 October 1949
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip.
01 January 1973
For all who enjoy ballet, this English-language film presents an insight into the dance that only dancers ordinarily see.
23 January 1937
A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.
01 January 1940
An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink.
29 July 1965
A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.
29 July 1972
A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet.
01 January 1969
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction.
01 January 1946
In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape.
31 December 1947
An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.
03 May 1951
Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.
01 January 1951
Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.
13 November 1939
Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost.
01 January 1952
An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres.
01 January 1944
This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping during World War II.
01 January 1939
Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.
09 June 1971
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head.
01 January 1959
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 island tune by Trinidad's Grand Curacaya Orchestra.
12 May 1973
Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen.
01 January 1944
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.
01 January 1944
An animated victory bond message with the advice, "Don't cash in your bonds."
14 January 2003
Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.
01 January 2006
1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.
01 January 2006
This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call Birdlings.
01 January 2006
Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.
13 February 1940
A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the message "Will you be our Valentine?
01 January 2006
The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
31 December 1950
This uncompleted film uses a technique invented by McLaren in the 1930s; the travelling zoom. McLaren's intention was to make the corridor gradually disappear so that the viewer's initial imprisonment would give way to the freedom of infinite space.
01 January 2006
Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film.
01 January 1985
So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.
01 January 2006
The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
01 January 2006
In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.
18 January 1933
Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.
01 January 2006
The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
31 December 1959
An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.
01 December 1936
This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936.
01 January 2006
Done during war years. Silent film.
01 January 2006
Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.
01 January 2006
An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.
14 January 2003
Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.
01 January 2006
The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.
01 January 2006
The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
09 January 1943
Images supered on a revolving barrel.
01 January 2006
A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.
01 January 1935
In this early film Norman McLaren shot crystal formations through a low-power microscope, using polarized light with the lower part of the picture masked off.
01 January 1938
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 McLaren passage where household furniture springs to life—selling the idea that “many a little makes a lot.
01 January 1977
In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated.
01 January 1940
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun.
01 January 1953
Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is animated frame by frame, as in the film Neighbours/Voisins.
17 July 2024
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.
01 November 1941
This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm stock, which was then superimposed on a photographed painted background.
02 January 1969
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
01 January 1946
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.
01 January 1978
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 change--change in the amount and color of light within an otherwise static screen.
19 January 1937
Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
01 January 1976
The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.
19 January 1935
Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.
01 January 1946
Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply disturbing surrealist dream.
