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Norman McLaren was a genius. That's not just my opinion, Picasso thought so too, as did
Francois Truffaut. McLaren was an animator and experimental film maker who created
works that destroyed the limits of what was thought possible through the medium of film.
He would create animations by scratching shapes directly into the film emulsion, or use live
models as stop-motion animation props, or create multiple exposures that used dozens of
interlocking images.
McLaren was the founding director of the National Film Board of Canada's animation
division (a post he held for more than 40 years) and under his tutelage the NFB became the
place for cutting-edge animation. Along the way hewon an Oscar, a Palm d'Or, and a zillion
film festival awards.
The National Film Board has just released a stunning, seven-DVD set of McLaren's work,
titled Norman McLaren: The Master's Edition.

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Although his name is a hardly a household word, Norman McLaren ranks among the most
significant figures in the history of world animation. Other artists created films; McLaren
created ways of making films. He drew scratched and painted images directly onto blank
film stock for "camera-less animation." He combined slow-motion photography and multiple
exposures to reveal the patterns created by dancers' movements in Pas de Deux. He moved
actors and full-sized props in Neighbors, his Oscar-winning parable of human aggression:
Two friends turn into homicidal maniacs when they vie for possession of a single flower. He
demonstrated the underlying structure of musical forms visually in Canon, and created
artificial sound to accompany many of his films.

DVD ONE:
Beginnings: Thematic Documentary (05:19)
Films & Tests:
- 7 till 5 (m)
- Camera makes whoopee (m)
- Book bargain
- Mony a pickle (c)
- News for the Navy
- The obedient flame
- Love on the wing
McLaren and space: Thematic Documentary (03:42)
Films & Tests:
- Blinkity Blank
- C'est l'aviron
- Window on Canada no.29 excerpt 1 (a)
- Spheres (c)
- The corridor (u)
- Barrell zoom (t/m)
- Love on the wing
Painting with light: Thematic Documentary (05:17)
Films & Tests:
- La poulette grise
- La poulette grise - test (t/m)
- Là-haut sur ces montagnes
- Là-haut sur ces montagnes - test (t/m)
- Window on Canada no.29 excerpt 2 (a)
- McLaren at play (t/m)
- Out-of-focus cloudscape (t/m)
- Spheres (c)
- A phantasy
- A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting
- Blurr test (t/m)
- Blinkity blank
- The flicker film (u)
- The seasons (u)
- Little negro (u/m)
- C'est l'aviron
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DVD TWO:
The art of motion: Thematic Documentary (03:24)
Films & Tests:
- Begone dull care
- Blinkity blank
- Lines horizontal
- Lines vertical
- Mosaic
- The making of Mosaic (t/m)
- Boogie doodle
- Short and suite
- Serenal
- Doors (u/m)
- Hen hop
- Fiddle-de-dee
- Dots
- Hoppity Hop
- Loops
- Mail early
- Mail early for Christmas
- Chaplin test (t/m)
- NBC Valentine greeting
- New York lightboard (m)
- New York lightboard record (m)
- Stars and stripes
- Birdlings (t/m)
Evelyn Lambart: Thematic Documentary (05:37)
Films & Tests:
- Begone dull care
- Le merle
- Lines horizontal
- Lines vertical
- Mosaic
Surrealism: Thematic Documentary (03:45)
Films & Tests:
- The head test (u)
- A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting
- A phantasy
- Tanguy landscape test (t)
- Surrealistic hand drawing (u/m)
- Pen drawings (t/m)
- Blinkity blank
- Serenal
- The hypnosis film (t/m)
- Begone dull care
- Mail Early
- Hen hop
- Boogie doodle
- Fiddle-de-dee
- Dots
- Hoppity Hop
- Loops
- Stars and stripes
- NBC Valentine greeting
- Short and suite
Maurice Blackburn: Thematic Documentary (04:18)
Films & Tests:
- A phantasy
- Blinkity Blank
- Lines vertical
- La poulette grise
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DVD THREE:
Dance: Thematic Documentary (05:02)
Films & Tests:
- Spook sport (c)
- July 4th 1941 (a/m)
- On the farm (t/m)
- Neighbours
- Two bagatelles
- A chairy tale
- Bounce film (t/m)
- Six and seven-eights (u)
- Norman McLaren's opening speech
- Canon
- Canon test (t/m)
- Christmas cracker (c)
- Polychrome fantasy (m)
- Pas de deux
- Pas de deux test (t/m)
- Ballet adagio
- Narcissus
- Narcissus test (t/m)
Vincent Warren: Thematic Documentary (05:17)
Films & Tests:
- Pas de deux
- Narcissus
- Narcissus test (t/m)
- Pas de deux test (t/m)
Grant Munro: Thematic Documentary (04:47)
Films & Tests:
- Neighbours
- Two bagatelles
- On the farm (t/m)
- Six and seven-eights (u)
- Canon
- Canon test (t/m)
- Christmas cracker (c)
- Christmas cracker - Norman McLaren's contribution (t/c/m)
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DVD FOUR:
War and peace: Thematic Documentary (04:57)
Films & Tests:
- Has anybody seen Canada? A history of canadian movies 1939-1953 Outtakes (t/a)
- Hell unlimited (c/m)
- Snakes (u/m)
- The wook (c)
- Keep your mouth shut
- V for victory
- 5 for 4
- Dollar dance
- Neighbours
- A chairy tale
- A chairy tale alternate ending (t)
- A chairy tale tests and aouttakes (t/m)
- Window on Canada no 29 exceprt 3 (a)
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DVD FIVE:
The animator as musician: Thematic Documentary (05:23)
Films & Tests:
- Synchromy
- Test a for Synchromy (t)
- Test b for Synchromy (t)
- Workshop experiments in animated studio (t)
- Loops
- Neighbours
- Blinkity blank
- Le merle rehearses (u)
- Scherzo
- Canon
- Pen point percussion (a)
- Animated sound test (t)
- Korean Alphabet (c)
- Synthetic music experiments (t)
Animated motion:
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
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DVD SIX:
Paper cut-outs: Thematic Documentary (04:41)
- Le merle
- Le merle tests and outtakes (t/m)
- Dans un petit bois (u)
- Rythmetic
- 1-2-3 (u/m)
- Alouette
- Le perdriole (u/m)
- Spheres (c)
René Jodoin: Thematic Documentary (05:07)
- Alouette
- Spheres (c)
- A summer day in Ottawa in 1949... (t/m)
About McLaren:
- Experimental film - excerpt (a)
- McLaren on McLaren (a)
- The eye hears, the ear sees (a)
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DVD SEVEN:
About McLaren:
Cinéma de notre temps (a) (55:08)
McLaren par Justra - Cinéma canadien, SRC 1961 (a) (02:03)
Pinscreen (a) (38:41)
Pinscreen tests (t/m) (01:16)
The digital restoration process (05:22)