- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental features include: alternate endings and test footage; archival interview excerpt; short introductory featurette on “War and Peace”; interviews and audio clips; booklet with essays, index to films, and restoration information.
Titles
+ Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?
- Director:
- Kramer, John
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1978
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Outtakes from the documentary HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN CANADA? A HISTORY OF CANADIAN MOVIES 1939 - 1953 featuring work by Norman McLaren.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Hell Unlimited
- Alternate Title:
- Hell Unltd
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- Norman McLaren
- Running Time:
- Short.   19 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, War
- Notes:
- Experimental, political film, mixing found footage, animation, titles, staged action and rapid editing in order to protest against government spending on armaments.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Snakes
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Unfinished film made during World War II, featuring images of snakes, swastikas, and whispering.
+ Wook, The
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Daly, Tom
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Documentary, War
- Notes:
- Animation by McLaren for the wartime documentary OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOUR (Tom Daly, Canada, 1941, 28 minutes), about the USSR and Soviet foreign policy.
+ Keep Your Mouth Shut
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Dunning, George
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English or French with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, War, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Short propaganda film on the theme of guarding national secrets, using wartime actuality footage with frame-by-frame animation and black-and-white flicker.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ V for Victory
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, War, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A short, promotional animated film to help sell Victory bonds.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 5 for 4
- Alternate Title:
- An Exercise in National ‘rythmetic
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada; War Savings Committee
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1942
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, War
- Notes:
- Drawn-on-film animated short promoting war bonds.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Dollar Dance
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English or French with optional English and French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Drawn-on-film animation about inflation and the virtues of saving money. With music by Lou Applebaum.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Neighbours
- Alternate Title:
- Les Voisins
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Munro, Grant
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Live action/animation parable about war. Two neighbors quarrel over a flower on the boundary line.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ A Chairy Tale
- Alternate Title:
- Il Etait Une Chaise
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Jutra, Claude; Lambart, Evelyn
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1957
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Live action/animated modern fairy tale, about a chair that declines to be sat upon. It focuses on a young man and a kitchen chair. The youth tries to sit and the chair eludes him. The ensuing struggle, first for mastery and then for understanding, forms the action of the film. With music by Ravi Shankar.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Window on Canada No. 29 (excerpt)
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- 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.