Screenplay: Norman McLaren
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Norman McLaren. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Neighbours (S)
1952 · Movie · 8 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Cast Grant Munro · Jean Paul Ladouceur
Plot A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Duo (S)
1968 · Movie · 13 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Cast Margaret Mercier · Vincent Warren
Plot Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
6.7
370 votes
6.7
370 votes
Begone Dull Care (S)
1949 · Movie · 8 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart
Plot Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
6.4
326 votes
6.4
326 votes
Lines: Vertical (S)
1960 · Movie · 6 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
Blackbird (S)
1959 · Movie · 5 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot In this animation film, Norman McLaren imparts unusual activity to an old French-Canadian nonsense song. Simple white cut-outs on pastel backgrounds, many by Evelyn Lambart, provide lively illustrations. The folksong...
5.7
176 votes
5.7
176 votes
5.6
152 votes
Spook Sport (S)
1940 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Norman McLaren · Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth
Plot It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move...
5.6
59 votes
5.6
59 votes
Blinkity Blank (S)
1955 · Movie · 5 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
5.6
250 votes
5.6
250 votes
Opening Speech (S)
1960 · Movie · 7 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Cast Norman McLaren
Plot Norman McLaren's Opening Speech on the Occasion of the First Montreal International Film Festival.
5.5
25 votes
5.5
25 votes
5.4
217 votes
5.3
89 votes
Mosaic (S)
1966 · Movie · 5 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart
Cast Norman McLaren
Plot This short experimental animation tempts the eye with gradually unfolding yet increasingly complex movement, colour and sound. Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op art,” McLaren and Lambart’s film follows...
5.3
105 votes
5.3
105 votes
Synchromy (S)
1971 · Movie · 7 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an...
5.2
222 votes
5.2
222 votes
Dots (S)
1940 · Movie · 2 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
5.2
304 votes
5.2
304 votes
Fiddle-de-dee (S)
1947 · Movie · 3 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker and blend. A Norman McLaren painting...
5.1
67 votes
5.1
67 votes
C'est l'aviron (S)
1944 · Movie · 3 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren
Plot An illustration of a traditional French Canadian song in the form of progressing cutouts and still pictures.
5.1
159 votes
5.1
159 votes
5.0
41 votes
4.8
137 votes
Two Bagatelles (S)
1953 · Movie · 3 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren · Grant Munro
Cast Grant Munro
4.7
21 votes
4.7
21 votes