Norman McLaren Movies

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

A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.

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

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

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

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...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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...

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

In this fifth part, Norman McLaren deals not with motion (if motion is defined as a change of location in two- or three-dimensional space) but with...

An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

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...

"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...

An unfinished animated short by Norman McLaren.