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Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.
As director
Little Negro
McLaren at Play
Out-of-Focus Cloudscape
Blurr Test
The Seasons
Birdlings
Chaplin Test
Surrealistic Hand Drawing
Pen Drawings
The Hypnosis Film
On the Farm
Six and Seven-Eighths
Narcissus
Animated Motion: Part 5
Animated Motion: Part 4
Animated Motion: Part 3
Animated Motion: Part 2
Animated Motion: Part 1
Pinscreen
Ballet Adagio
Synchromy
Opening Speech
Spheres
Pas de Deux
Mosaic
Canon
Christmas Cracker
Seven Surprizes
Lines: Horizontal
New York Lightboard Record
As actor
Daedalus
Jacques Drouin: In Relief
Beginnings
McLaren and Space
Painting with Light
Blurr Test
The Art of Motion
Evelyn Lambart
Birdlings
Tanguy Landscape Test
War and Peace
On the Farm
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
McLaren on McLaren
Pinscreen
Grierson
Tour en l'air
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
Opening Speech
Mosaic
New York Lightboard Record
Pen Point Percussion