Norman McLaren Movies

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.

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...

Made during WWII

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...

Montage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.

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...

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

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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 unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

An opening address, a tribute and highlights of a long and productive career--McLaren on McLaren is Norman McLaren on camera. The occasion is the...

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

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...

In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included...

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren.

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