Norman McLaren
Directing
Biography
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.
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Grierson
1973
Evelyn Lambart
2006
Mosaic
1965
Opening Speech
1969
Pinscreen
1973
Beginnings
2006
Tour en l'air
1973
Jacques Drouin: In Relief
2009
Blurr Test
2006
Daedalus
2024
Birdlings
2006
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
1970
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
1985
War and Peace
2005
Pen Point Percussion
1951
The Art of Motion
2006
McLaren and Space
2006
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren
1972
Painting with Light
2006
On the Farm
2003
New York Lightboard Record
1961
McLaren on McLaren
1983
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
1990
Tanguy Landscape Test
2006
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Ballet Adagio
1972
Mosaic
1965
Blackbird
1958
Blinkity Blank
1955
Opening Speech
1969
Synchromy
1971
Pinscreen
1973
Korean Alphabet
1967
Canon
1964
A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting
1946
Chaplin Test
2006
Mail Early
1941
Polychrome Fantasy
1935
Dollar Dance
1943
Alouette
1944
Boogie-Doodle
1941
Spook Sport
1940
The Seasons
1950
A Phantasy
1952
Chants populaires nº 5
1943
Pen Drawings
2006
McLaren Homemovie
1936
Blurr Test
2006
Pas de Deux
1968
Spheres
1969
The Seasons
2006
Book Bargain
1937
Hoppity Pop
1946
Birdlings
2006
Twirligig
1952
Defence of Madrid
1936
The Corridor
1950
Two Bagatelles
1953
Neighbours
1952
Serenal
1959
Little Negro
2006
Hen Hop
1942
Barrel Zoom
1943
Dots
1940
Snakes
1943
The Hypnosis Film
2006
Leapfrog
1949
Mony a Pickle
1938
McLaren in Ottawa
1949
A Chairy Tale
1957
Stars and Stripes
1939
Scherzo
1939
Mail Early for Christmas
1959
The Flicker Film
1961
Animated Motion: Part 1
1976
Colour Flicker
1948
Allegro
1939
Begone Dull Care
1949
A Rainy Day
1944
Love on the Wing
1939
Pen Point Percussion
1951
Six and Seven-Eighths
2003
Doors
1959
Lines: Horizontal
1962
Fiddle De-Dee
1947
La poulette grise
1947
News for the Navy
1937
Seven Surprizes
1963
Loops
1940
Chants populaires nº 6
1946
Narcissus
1983
Animated Motion: Part 2
1977
Test B For Synchromy
1960
McLaren at Play
2006
Animated Motion: Part 4
1977
Hell Unltd
1936
New York Lightboard
1961
The Head Test
1944
5 for 4
1942
Animated Motion: Part 3
1977
Keep Your Mouth Shut
1944
Rock the Boat
1944
Out-of-Focus Cloudscape
2006
Christmas Cracker
1963
Test A for Synchromy
1960
On the Farm
2003
New York Lightboard Record
1961
Dots and Loops
1948
V for Victory
1941
Surrealistic Hand Drawing
2006
Camera Makes Whoopee
1935
Pas de deux 5
1950
The Obedient Flame
1939
Up There in the Mountains
1946
7 Till 5: A Pattern of the Day's Doings
1933
Animated Motion: Part 5
1978
NBC Valentine Greeting
1940
Short and Suite
1959
Around Is Around
1951
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
1990
Lines: Vertical
1960
A Job in a Million
1937
Rythmetic
1956
A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949
1949
Now Is the Time
1951