- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD005801
-
Norman McLaren: The Master Edition 01
-
McLaren, Norman
-
National Film Board of Canada; Image Entertainment, 2006
- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w. fullscreen. sound. - Notes:
- Supplemental features include: short introductory featurettes on “Beginnings,” “McLaren and Space,” and “Painting With Light”; interviews and audio clips; test footage; booklet with essays, index to films, and restoration information.
- Alternate Title:
- 7 Till 5 A Pattern of the Day’s Doings; A Day at Art School
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- Glasgow School of Art Kinecraft Society
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Alternate Title:
- Camera Makes Whoopee at the Art School Carnival Ball
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- Norman McLaren
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Animation and live-action on the theme of the Glasgow Art School’s Christmas Carnival Ball.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Educational
- Notes:
- Printing the London telephone directory.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Educational, Animation
- Notes:
- A film advocating thrift by use of the Post Office Savings Bank.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary
- Notes:
- Documentary which follows the course of a letter posted in London to a sailor aboard the fictional HMS Incredible.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- Science Films; British Gas Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Educational, Animation
- Notes:
- This documentary, using both live-action photography and animation, shows the advantages of cooking with gas.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- GPO Film Unit
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Industrial
- Notes:
- Abstract animated publicity film for Empire Air Mail.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1955
- Language:
- English or French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Semi-abstract designs are engraved directly on to a strip of black film, leaving many blank frames between the images.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Alternate Title:
- Chants Populaires No. 6
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, With Songs
- Notes:
- Continuous zoom over cut-out landscapes, set to the song “C'est l'aviron Qui Nous Mène, Qui Nous Mène,” sung by the Alouette Quartet.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1954
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Television Production, Documentary, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Excerpts from an interview with McLaren on the program “Window on Canada” in 1954.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Jodoin, René
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1969
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Abstract animation showing spheres in motion against a background of multi-hued sky. Set to Bach’s Fugue #14, played by Glenn Gould.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1950s
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Excerpt of an unfinished film, from the 1950s, featuring a traveling zoom across a multicolored corridor which gradually disappears.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- ca. 1943
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Excerpt from an unfinished film, “Barrell Zoom: Images Supered on a Revolving Barrell,” from 1943.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1947
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, With Songs
- Notes:
- Animation of pastel landscapes, set to a traditional French-Canadian lullaby sung by Anna Malenfant.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Alternate Title:
- Chants Populaires no. 6
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1946
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, With Songs
- Notes:
- Animation of black and white pastel drawings, set to a Canadian folk song sung by Madeleine Lachance.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1940s - 1950s
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Montage of live-action and animated test footage and experiments made by McLaren in the 1940s and 50s.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- [1940s]
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Animation of colored clouds, “an idea for backgrounds never used.”
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Cut-out animation and music for saxophones are combined in this short about inanimate objects that come to life and start dancing in dream-like landscapes.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Alternate Title:
- Isle of the Dead
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1946
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Animated fantasy based on Arnold Boecklin's picture 'Isle of the Dead'.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Year:
- 1956-1957
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Footage from McLaren’s experiments with ‘blurrs,’ short exposures printed and stretched by hand over multiple frames.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Year:
- 1961
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Unreleased abstract film of rapidly alternating black and white frames.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Unfinished abstract short with pastel drawings transformed by dissolves of different lengths, inspired by the paintings of J.M.W. Turner.
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1940s
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Unfinished animated short using abstract pastel drawings.
Titles
+ Window on Canada no. 29 - Excerpts
+ Little Phantasy on a Nineteenth Century Painting, A