Norman McLaren
Born: 1914-04-11 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Died: 1987-02-27
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2024
- Daedalus as sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren
2009
- Jacques Drouin: In Relief as Archive Footage
2006
- The Art of Motion
- Beginnings
- Birdlings
- The Hypnosis Film ... (Director)
- Evelyn Lambart
- Surrealistic Hand Drawing ... (Director)
- Blurr Test
- McLaren and Space
- Chaplin Test ... (Director)
- Out-of-Focus Cloudscape ... (Director)
- Tanguy Landscape Test as Narrator (voice)
- McLaren at Play ... (Director)
- Pen Drawings ... (Director)
- Painting with Light
- The Seasons ... (Director)
- Little Negro ... (Director)
2005
- War and Peace as Self
2003
- Six and Seven-Eighths ... (Director)
- On the Farm
1990
- Creative Process: Norman McLaren as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Narcissus ... (Director)
- McLaren on McLaren as Self
1978
- Animated Motion: Part 5 ... (Director)
1977
- Animated Motion: Part 2 ... (Director)
- Animated Motion: Part 4 ... (Director)
- Animated Motion: Part 3 ... (Director)
1976
- Animated Motion: Part 1 ... (Director)
1973
- Grierson as Self (archive footage)
- Pinscreen
- Tour en l'air as Self
1972
- Ballet Adagio ... (Director)
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren as Self
1971
- Synchromy ... (Director)
1970
- The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees as Self
1969
- Spheres ... (Animation)
- Opening Speech as Self
1968
- Pas de Deux ... (Director)
1967
- Korean Alphabet ... (Music)
1965
1964
- Canon ... (Director)
1963
- Christmas Cracker ... (Director)
- Seven Surprizes ... (Director)
1962
- Lines: Horizontal ... (Director)
1961
- The Flicker Film ... (Director)
- New York Lightboard Record as Self - Seen with Man in Hat
- New York Lightboard ... (Director)
1960
- Lines: Vertical ... (Director)
- Test B For Synchromy ... (Director)
- Test A for Synchromy ... (Director)
1959
- Doors ... (Director)
- Serenal ... (Director)
- Short and Suite ... (Director)
- Mail Early for Christmas ... (Director)
1958
- Blackbird ... (Director)
1957
- A Chairy Tale ... (Director)
1956
- Rythmetic ... (Director)
1955
- Blinkity Blank ... (Director)
1953
- Two Bagatelles ... (Director)
1952
- Neighbours ... (Director)
- A Phantasy ... (Director)
- Twirligig ... (Producer)
1951
- Around Is Around ... (Director)
- Now Is the Time ... (Director)
- Pen Point Percussion as Self
1950
- The Corridor ... (Director)
- The Seasons ... (Director)
- Pas de deux 5 ... (Director)
1949
- Begone Dull Care ... (Director)
- A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949 ... (Director)
- Leapfrog ... (Director)
- McLaren in Ottawa ... (Director)
1948
- Dots and Loops ... (Director)
- Colour Flicker ... (Director)
1947
- Fiddle De-Dee ... (Director)
- La poulette grise ... (Director)
1946
- A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting ... (Director)
- Chants populaires nº 6 ... (Director)
- Hoppity Pop ... (Director)
- Up There in the Mountains ... (Director)
1944
- Rock the Boat ... (Director)
- Alouette ... (Director)
- The Head Test ... (Director)
- Keep Your Mouth Shut ... (Director)
- A Rainy Day ... (Producer)
1943
- Barrel Zoom ... (Director)
- Dollar Dance ... (Director)
- Chants populaires nº 5 ... (Director)
- Snakes ... (Director)
1941
- V for Victory ... (Director)
- Boogie-Doodle ... (Director)
- Mail Early ... (Director)
1940
- Spook Sport ... (Director)
- Dots ... (Director)
- NBC Valentine Greeting ... (Director)
- Loops ... (Director)
1939
- Stars and Stripes ... (Director)
- Scherzo ... (Director)
- Love on the Wing ... (Director)
- The Obedient Flame ... (Director)
- Allegro ... (Director)
1938
- Mony a Pickle ... (Director)
1937
- Book Bargain ... (Director)
- News for the Navy ... (Director)
- A Job in a Million ... (Editor)
1936
- Defence of Madrid ... (Cinematography)
- Hell Unltd ... (Director)
- McLaren Homemovie ... (Director)
1935
- Camera Makes Whoopee ... (Editor)
- Polychrome Fantasy ... (Director)
1933
- 7 Till 5: A Pattern of the Day's Doings ... (Director)