Neighbours

Neighbours

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors...

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The Energy Carol

The Energy Carol

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

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Creative Process: Norman McLaren

Creative Process: Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

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The Magical Eye

The Magical Eye

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film...

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Christmas Cracker

Christmas Cracker

Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells,"...

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Pinscreen

Pinscreen

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen...

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Ashes of Doom

Ashes of Doom

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

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The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren.

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Two Bagatelles

Two Bagatelles

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...

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Six and Seven-Eighths

Six and Seven-Eighths

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

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On the Farm

On the Farm

Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.

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The Ballot-o-Maniac

The Ballot-o-Maniac

An enthusiastic but naive campaign worker causes trouble for his candidate due to his unorthodox campaign tactics, which turn out to violate the...

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