Norman McLaren Filmes

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

On a blue background, a series of numbers (1 to 5) begin to appear, forming simple arithmetic equations that create a pattern. Numbers and symbols...

This documentary is a portrait of the animator of Le Paysagiste, from his childhood in Eastern Quebec to his career at the NFB. Trained at the...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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...

Done during war years. Silent film.

"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...

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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...

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

This short animation of linear symbols made from paper cutouts was created as a Canadian tourism publicity clip. Projected in New York's Times...