Norman McLaren Movies

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

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...

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.

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. The screen is...

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...

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

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

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

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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

The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.