- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  
- Notes:
- Supplementary features include: short featurettes on “Paper Cut-Outs” and “René Jodoin”; segment from “Experimental FIlm” (Arthur Lipsett, 1961) on McLaren; outtakes and test footage; booklet with essays, index to films, and restoration information.
Titles
+ Merle, Le
- Alternate Title:
- The Blackbird
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1958
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- An experimental animated short illustrating an old French-Canadian song.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Dans un Petit Bois
- Alternate Title:
- The Little Wood
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1940s
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Excerpt from “The Creative Process: Norman McLaren” (Donald McWilliams, 1993), about a complex, unfinished film McLaren began in the 1940’s.
+ Rythmetic
- Alternate Title:
- Rhythmetic
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Lambart, Evelyn
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1955
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Paper cut-out animation. The screen becomes a numerical free-for-all, as digits meet in a playful encounter, add and subtract, jostle, attack and elude one another.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 1-2-3
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1955
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Unfinished cut-out animation with numbers, eventually abandoned in favor of RYTHMETIC (1955).
+ Alouette
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Paper cut-out animation illustrating the French-Canadian folk song.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Spheres
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Jodoin, René
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1969
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, With Songs
- 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 |
+ Summer Day in Ottowa in 1949..., A
- Director:
- McLaren, Norman; Jodoin, René
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- Canada
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Behind-the-scenes footage of McLaren, René Jodoin, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and other NFB animators shooting stop-motion animated scenes outside.
+ McLaren on McLaren
- Director:
- Munro, Grant
- Production Co:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1983
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Short documentary about McLaren’s life and work, compiled by Grant Munro.
+ Eye Hears, The Ear Sees, The
- Director:
- Millar, Gavin
- Production Co:
- BBC
- Running Time:
- Feature.   59 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English with optional French subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Gavin Millar interviews experimental filmmaker and animator Norman McLaren and his NFB associate Grant Munro. This tribute shows many examples of McLaren's style and how he developed it.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |