Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.

Cast

Beginnings

McLaren and Space

Painting with Light

Blurr Test

The Art of Motion

Evelyn Lambart

Birdlings

Tanguy Landscape Test

(Narrator (voice))

Creative Process: Norman McLaren

(Self (archive footage))

New York Lightboard Record

(Self - Seen with Man in Hat)

Opening Speech

(Self)

War and Peace

(Self)

Pen Point Percussion

(Self)

Pinscreen

McLaren on McLaren

(Self)

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

(Self)

Daedalus

(sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren)

Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren

(Self)

Mosaic

On the Farm

Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

Grierson

(Self (archive footage))

Tour en l'air

(Self)
Crew

A Job in a Million

(Editor)

Dots and Loops

(Director)

Spheres

(Animation)

Spheres

(Producer)

Neighbours

(Director)

Dots

(Director)

Christmas Cracker

(Director)

Blinkity Blank

(Director)

Blinkity Blank

(Producer)

Blinkity Blank

(Animation)

Rock the Boat

(Director)

Begone Dull Care

(Director)

La poulette grise

(Director)

A Chairy Tale

(Director)

Boogie-Doodle

(Director)

Loops

(Director)

Pas de Deux

(Director)

Blackbird

(Director)

Rock the Boat

(Producer)

Mony a Pickle

(Director)

Mail Early for Christmas

(Director)

Snakes

(Director)

Pen Point Percussion

(Director)

Mosaic

(Director)

Ballet Adagio

(Director)

Camera Makes Whoopee

(Editor)

New York Lightboard Record

(Director)

New York Lightboard Record

(Producer)

Synchromy

(Director)

Spook Sport

(Director)

Rythmetic

(Director)

A Phantasy

(Director)

Opening Speech

(Director)

On the Farm

(Director)

Defence of Madrid

(Cinematography)

Up There in the Mountains

(Director)

Fiddle De-Dee

(Director)

Canon

(Director)

Hen Hop

(Director)

Serenal

(Director)

Love on the Wing

(Director)

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

(Director)

Spheres

(Director)

Hoppity Pop

(Director)

Lines: Horizontal

(Director)

Lines: Vertical

(Director)

Two Bagatelles

(Director)

5 for 4

(Director)

Keep Your Mouth Shut

(Director)

V for Victory

(Director)

Dollar Dance

(Director)

Short and Suite

(Director)

Animated Motion: Part 4

(Director)

Animated Motion: Part 3

(Director)

Animated Motion: Part 5

(Director)

Narcissus

(Director)

Scherzo

(Director)

Mail Early

(Director)

Stars and Stripes

(Director)

The Obedient Flame

(Director)

Chants populaires nº 5

(Director)

Animated Motion: Part 1

(Director)

Alouette

(Director)

Animated Motion: Part 2

(Director)

NBC Valentine Greeting

(Director)

Hell Unltd

(Director)

Now Is the Time

(Director)

Around Is Around

(Director)

Twirligig

(Producer)

Now Is the Time

(Sound Designer)

Around Is Around

(Animation Director)

Now Is the Time

(Animation Director)

Now Is the Time

(Producer)

Camera Makes Whoopee

(Director)

7 Till 5: A Pattern of the Day's Doings

(Director)

Polychrome Fantasy

(Director)

Book Bargain

(Director)

News for the Navy

(Director)

A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949

(Director)

Opening Speech

(Writer)

Blinkity Blank

(Writer)

Six and Seven-Eighths

(Director)

Pinscreen

(Director)

Spook Sport

(Producer)

Begone Dull Care

(Editor)

Begone Dull Care

(Animation)

Two Bagatelles

(Music)

Ballet Adagio

(Producer)

Neighbours

(Music)

Neighbours

(Writer)

Neighbours

(Animation)

Neighbours

(Producer)

Fiddle De-Dee

(Animation)

A Phantasy

(Producer)

Boogie-Doodle

(Producer)

A Phantasy

(Animation)

Boogie-Doodle

(Animation)

Mail Early

(Producer)

Mail Early

(Animation)

The Corridor

(Director)

Little Negro

(Director)

McLaren at Play

(Director)

Out-of-Focus Cloudscape

(Director)

Blurr Test

(Director)

The Seasons

(Director)

Birdlings

(Director)

Chaplin Test

(Director)

Surrealistic Hand Drawing

(Director)

Pen Drawings

(Director)

The Hypnosis Film

(Director)

Ballet Adagio

(Animation)

Seven Surprizes

(Director)

Mosaic

(Music)

Mosaic

(Producer)

Mosaic

(Animation)

Test A for Synchromy

(Director)

Test B For Synchromy

(Director)

Doors

(Director)

The Head Test

(Director)

Barrel Zoom

(Director)

A Rainy Day

(Producer)

Chants populaires nº 6

(Director)

Korean Alphabet

(Music)

The Flicker Film

(Director)

V for Victory

(Animation)

Loops

(Producer)

Hoppity Pop

(Producer)

Hoppity Pop

(Animation)

5 for 4

(Animation)

Loops

(Animation)

Mail Early for Christmas

(Producer)

Scherzo

(Producer)

Dots

(Producer)

Dots

(Animation)

Mail Early for Christmas

(Animation)

V for Victory

(Producer)

5 for 4

(Producer)

Hen Hop

(Producer)

Hen Hop

(Animation)

Lines: Vertical

(Animation)

Lines: Horizontal

(Animation)

Lines: Horizontal

(Producer)

Lines: Vertical

(Producer)

Camera Makes Whoopee

(Producer)

Camera Makes Whoopee

(Writer)

Creative Process: Norman McLaren

(Original Music Composer)

McLaren Homemovie

(Director)

Pen Point Percussion

(Producer)

Colour Flicker

(Director)

Leapfrog

(Director)

The Seasons

(Director)

McLaren in Ottawa

(Director)

Pas de deux 5

(Director)

New York Lightboard

(Director)