Director
Norman McLaren
112 years · Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland · 68 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 68
Daedalus
2024 · sampled part of Pas De Deux by Norman McLaren
Jacques Drouin: In Relief
2009 · Archive Footage
Chaplin Test
2006 · Director
Surrealistic Hand Drawing
2006 · Director
The Hypnosis Film
2006 · Director
War and Peace
2005 · Self
Six and Seven-Eighths
2003 · Director
Narcissus
1983 · Director
McLaren on McLaren
1983 · Self
Grierson
1973 · Self (archive footage)
Pinscreen
1973 · Actor, Director
Ballet Adagio
1972 · Director, Producer
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren
1972 · Self
Synchromy
1971 · Director
On Filmzie
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
1970 · Self
Opening Speech
1969 · Self, Director
Spheres
1969 · Producer, Director
Pas de Deux
1968 · Director
On Kanopy
Korean Alphabet
1967 · Music
Mosaic
1965 · Actor, Director
Canon
1964 · Director
Christmas Cracker
1963 · Director
On Kanopy
Lines: Horizontal
1962 · Director, Producer
The Flicker Film
1961 · Director