Norman McLaren

McLaren, Norman Filmography

• Play in Full Screen On the Farm

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Six and Seven-Eighths

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Animation Favorites from the National Film Board of Canada

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Creative Process: Norman McLaren

  1993, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Creative Process: Norman McLaren

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Magical Eye

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen McLaren on McLaren

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Narcissus

  1983, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Narcissus

  1983, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself - Discusses Origin of Film 'Neighbours'
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #5

  1978, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #5

  1978, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #5

  1978, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #2

  1977, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #4

  1977, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #3

  1977, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #3

  1977, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #4

  1977, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #2

  1977, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #1

  1976, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Animated Motion #1

  1976, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Pinscreen

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Pinscreen

  1973, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Grierson

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ballet Adagio

  1972, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ballet Adagio

  1972, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Synchromy

  1971, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Synchromy

  1971, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Synchromy

  1971, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Striations

  1970, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Spheres

  1969, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Spheres

  1969, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Pas de deux

  1968, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Pas de deux

  1968, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Korean Alphabet

  1967, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Mosaic

  1966, role: actor , character name: Man
• Play in Full Screen Mosaic

  1966, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Mosaic

  1966, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Mosaic

  1966, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Canon

  1964, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Canon

  1964, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Seven Surprizes

  1963, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Lines: Horizontal

  1962, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Christmas Cracker

  1962, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Lines: Horizontal

  1962, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen New York Lightboard Record

  1961, role: director
• Play in Full Screen New York Lightboard

  1961, role: director
• Play in Full Screen New York Lightboard Record

  1961, role: actor , character name: Himself - seen with man in hat

Famous quotes by Norman McLaren:

"If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches."

"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."

"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."

"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."

"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."

"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."

"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."

"Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds."

"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."

"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."

"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."

"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."

"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."

"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."

"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."

"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."

"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."