Norman McLaren
- Directing
- April 11, 1914 · Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- February 27, 1987
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
Filmography
- Daedalus · sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren
- Jacques Drouin: In Relief · Archive Footage
- Beginnings
- McLaren and Space
- Painting with Light
- Blurr Test · Director
- The Art of Motion
- Birdlings · Director
- Evelyn Lambart
- Tanguy Landscape Test · Narrator (Voice), Director
- McLaren at Play · Director
- Out-of-Focus Cloudscape · Director
- The Seasons · Director
- Little Negro · Director
- Chaplin Test · Director
- Surrealistic Hand Drawing · Director
- Pen Drawings · Director
- The Hypnosis Film · Director
- War and Peace · Self
- On the Farm · Director
- Six and Seven-Eighths · Director
- Creative Process: Norman McLaren · Self, Music
- Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
- Narcissus · Director
- McLaren on McLaren · Self
- Animated Motion: Part 5 · Director
- Animated Motion: Part 2 · Director
- Animated Motion: Part 3 · Director
- Animated Motion: Part 4 · Director
- Animated Motion: Part 1 · Director
- Grierson · Self
- Pinscreen · Director
- Tour en l'air · Self
- Ballet Adagio · Director, Producer
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren · Self
- Synchromy · Director
- The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees · Self
- Opening Speech · Self, Director
- Spheres · Animation, Producer
- Pas de Deux · Director
- Korean Alphabet · Music
- Mosaic · Director, Animation
- Canon · Director
- Christmas Cracker · Director
- Seven Surprizes · Director
- Lines: Horizontal · Director, Animation
- New York Lightboard Record · Self, Director
- The Flicker Film · Director
- New York Lightboard · Director
- Lines: Vertical · Director, Animation
- Test A for Synchromy · Director
- Test B For Synchromy · Director
- Doors · Director
- Mail Early for Christmas · Director, Producer
- Serenal · Director
- Short and Suite · Director
- Blackbird · Director
- A Chairy Tale · Director
- Rythmetic · Director
- Blinkity Blank · Director, Producer
- Two Bagatelles · Director, Music
- Neighbours · Director, Writer
- A Phantasy · Director, Producer
- Twirligig · Producer
- Now Is the Time · Director, Producer
- Pen Point Percussion · Self, Director
- Around Is Around · Director, Animation Director
- The Corridor · Director
- Pas de deux 5 · Director
- The Seasons · Director
- Begone Dull Care · Director, Editing
- A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949 · Director
- Leapfrog · Director
- McLaren in Ottawa · Director
- Colour Flicker · Director
- Dots and Loops · Director
- La poulette grise · Director
- Fiddle De-Dee · Director, Animation
- Chants populaires nº 6 · Director
- Up There in the Mountains · Director