Norman McLaren

Explore Norman McLaren's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

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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.

Filmography

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