Norman McLaren

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.

Directed

1. Neighbours (1952) — Director
2. Begone Dull Care (1949) — Director
3. Pas de Deux (1968) — Director
4. Blinkity Blank (1955) — Director
5. Dots (1940) — Director
6. A Chairy Tale (1957) — Director
7. Loops (1940) — Director
8. Boogie-Doodle (1941) — Director
9. Spook Sport (1940) — Director
10. Rock the Boat (1944) — Director
11. La poulette grise (1947) — Director
12. Blackbird (1958) — Director
13. Synchromy (1971) — Director
14. A Phantasy (1952) — Director
15. Canon (1964) — Director
16. Fiddle De-Dee (1947) — Director
17. Narcissus (1983) — Director
18. Rythmetic (1956) — Director
19. Hen Hop (1942) — Director
20. Lines: Horizontal (1962) — Director
21. Opening Speech (1969) — Director
22. Stars and Stripes (1939) — Director
23. Lines: Vertical (1960) — Director
24. Keep Your Mouth Shut (1944) — Director
25. Scherzo (1939) — Director
26. Mosaic (1965) — Director
27. Short and Suite (1959) — Director
28. Alouette (1944) — Director
29. Ballet Adagio (1972) — Director
30. Christmas Cracker (1963) — Director
31. Pen Point Percussion (1951) — Director
32. Love on the Wing (1939) — Director
33. Spheres (1969) — Director
34. Mail Early (1941) — Director
35. Polychrome Fantasy (1935) — Director
36. Mail Early for Christmas (1959) — Director
37. A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting (1946) — Director
38. Dollar Dance (1943) — Director
39. Hoppity Pop (1946) — Director
40. Two Bagatelles (1953) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Opening Speech (1969) — Self
2. Mosaic (1965)
3. Pen Point Percussion (1951) — Self
4. Creative Process: Norman McLaren (1990) — Self (archive footage)
5. New York Lightboard Record (1961) — Self - Seen with Man in Hat
6. Pinscreen (1973)
7. Grierson (1973) — Self (archive footage)
8. McLaren on McLaren (1983) — Self
9. The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees (1970) — Self
10. Daedalus (2024) — sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren
11. Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren (1972) — Self
12. On the Farm (2003)
13. Tour en l'air (1973) — Self
14. Beginnings (2006)
15. McLaren and Space (2006)
16. Painting with Light (2006)
17. Blurr Test (2006)
18. The Art of Motion (2006)
19. Evelyn Lambart (2006)
20. Birdlings (2006)
21. Tanguy Landscape Test (2006) — Narrator (voice)
22. War and Peace (2005) — Self
23. Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short (1985)
24. Jacques Drouin: In Relief (2009) — Archive Footage