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