Norman McLaren Filmes
- 1957
A Chairy Tale
A Chairy Tale6.61957HD
An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
- 1952
Neighbours
Neighbours7.4471952HD
In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors....
- 1955
Blinkity Blank
Blinkity Blank6.1891955HD
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...
- 2024
Daedalus
Daedalus102024HD
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...
- 1949
Begone Dull Care
Begone Dull Care6.6891949HD
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....
- 1940
Spook Sport
Spook Sport5.811940HD
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...
- 1940
Dots
Dots5.9631940HD
An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...
- 1968
Pas de Deux
Pas de Deux6.4031968HD
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.
- 1952
A Phantasy
A Phantasy6.11952HD
An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...
- 1971
Synchromy
Synchromy6.61971HD
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running...
- 1938
Mony a Pickle
Mony a Pickle3.51938HD
Documentary on savings
- 1941
Boogie-Doodle
Boogie-Doodle5.851941HD
An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which "boogie" played by Albert Ammons and "doodle" drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a...
- 1983
Narcissus
Narcissus5.1671983HD
In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...
- 1958
Blackbird
Blackbird5.81958HD
To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.
- 1939
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes5.6671939HD
An abstract animation by Norman McLaren, who was born in Scotland in 1914. His interest in filmmaking began early in life after he became acquainted...
- 1965
Mosaic
Mosaic5.21965HD
A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.
- 1962
Lines: Horizontal
Lines: Horizontal6.0831962HD
An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...
- 1973
Pinscreen
Pinscreen6.71973HD
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...
- 1972
Ballet Adagio
Ballet Adagio6.8891972HD
A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet...
- 1964
Canon
Canon61964HD
Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon...