Name
Norman McLaren
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1914-04-11
Deathday
1987-02-27 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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.
Known For
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Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Fi...
6.4
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws ...
5.8
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, an...
7.1
A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting ...
6.2
An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" f...
- 2006 Beginnings
- 2006 McLaren and Space
- 2006 Painting with Light
- 2006 Blurr Test
- 2006 The Art of Motion
- 2006 Evelyn Lambart
- 2006 Birdlings
- 2006 Tanguy Landscape Test as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 Creative Process: Norman McLaren as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 New York Lightboard Record as Self - Seen with Man in Hat
- 1969 Opening Speech as Self
- 2005 War and Peace as Self
- 1951 Pen Point Percussion as Self
- 1973 Pinscreen
- 1983 McLaren on McLaren as Self
- 1970 The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees as Self
- 2024 Daedalus as sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren
- 1972 Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren as Self
- 1965 Mosaic
- 2003 On the Farm
- 1985 Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
- 1973 Grierson as Self (archive footage)
- 1973 Tour en l'air as Self
- 2009 Jacques Drouin: In Relief as Archive Footage
