Norman McLaren Movies

"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.

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

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

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

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one...

A Norman McLaren Animated Film

Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply...

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

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...

"Là-haut sur ces montagnes" sung by Madeleine Lachance is illustrated with drawings and in "C'est l'aviron" a boat sails to the rhythm of the...

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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

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...

Norman McLaren's documentary-style account of how a letter from home reaches a sailor on duty in foreign waters.