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	Norman McLaren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman McLaren, C.C. April 11, 1914-January 27, 1987) was a Scottish animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada.
		McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland where he studied design at Glasgow School of Art and made his first experiments with film and animation.
		McLaren is famous for his experiments with image and sound as he developed a number of groundbreaking techniques for combining and synchronizing animation with music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_McLaren (311 words)

	BAF03 - National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		McLaren’s films are still startlingly fresh, and although still frequently played at festivals and cinemas the world over, warrant inclusion in this programme simply because — as with Fischinger — to omit them absence would be to ignore a large and important section of the history of avant-garde animation.
		McLaren’s technique in this film is one that he has employed successfully before — engraving directly on 35mm fl emulsion-coated film with such exotic instruments — in a film-making sense — as a pen-knife, a sewing needle and a razor blade.
		McLaren had originally decided that this film was going to consist only of the movements of one solitary line, but discovered that such a film would last only about a minute.
	www.baf.org.uk /2003/eventdetail.asp?ida=4136 (532 words)

	McLaren and Grierson: intersections
		McLaren's solution to this further problem was to use just clusters of three or four frame-images which did not have to be precisely registered as they would only be on the screen for a split-second.
		McLaren's internationalist outlook was also a prime factor in his acceptance of two sabbaticals for UNESCO to China (1949-50) and to India (1952-53) during which he taught visual communication (including fundamental film-making).
		McLaren's desire to see the film released over-rode any misgivings he may have had concerning the removal of the structural and emotional climax of the film, the elimination of which ironically lessened the film's pacifist impact.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1199/tdfr8d.htm (5472 words)

	Norman McLaren - Northern Stars
		Grierson is often referred to as "the father of British documentary" and in 1938 he was invited by the Government of Canada to prepare a report on government film activities.
		Meanwhile his former coworker, Norman McLaren, was an independent producer in New York having arrived there in 1939.
		It isn't known if McLaren was thinking specifically about Grierson's statement about film when in 1960 he began work on a trio of films that are his most complete expressions of the universality of abstract forms.
	www.northernstars.ca /directorsmz/mclarenbio.html (823 words)

	McLaren, Norman
		McLaren also created 'animated sound,' a form of 'visible' or synthetic sound made by hand-drawings on the sound-track of the film.
		McLaren has earned an international reputation for his imaginative and skilled contribution to the art of film.
		Those from his own include the first medal of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1963, the Canada Council Medal in 1966, the Molson Prize in 1971, and the Diplôme d'honneur of the CCA in 1978.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002301 (362 words)

	McLAREN
		The McLarens or McLaurins are supposed to be descendants of one of the many groups of Aryans who migrated western from Northern Ludia by way of Egypt, Spain and Ireland.
		Norman and his brothers and sisters would have attended a small one room school that was, for many years, next to the Breadalbane Baptist Church, just a couple miles down the road from their farm.
		Norman's brother James had married Jennie Ferguson in June of 1886 and moved to Buckingham, Quebec where they had two children, May born in 1887 and Art in 1888.
	www.niagara.com /~robbins/mclaren.htm (4813 words)

	Norman McLaren - Wikipédia
		Norman McLaren (11 avril 1914, Stirling, Écosse - 26 janvier 1987, Montréal, Canada) est un réalisateur canado-écossais de films, notamment d'animation.
		Norman McLaren s'est notamment inspiré des techniques de superposition de personnage sur un décor d'Emile Courtet, dans ses techniques de grattage de pellicule, comme dans Love on the Wing par exemple.
		Norman McLaren, précurseur des nouvelles images de Alfio Bastiancich aux Editions Dreamland.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_McLaren (380 words)

	Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-Modernists — iota
		McLaren 'rejects the concern for the integrity of process and material that one associates with Modernism in Art'.
		McLaren's association of the abstract dot patterns with a ball that the filmmaker can pull from his pocket and set in ricochet/rebound motion, actually enriches the response of the viewer in that it suggests a type of common experience which involves the sort of mathematical trajectories celebrated in this animation.
		That Norman McLaren might be a post-modernist in 1940, twenty years before Jencks dates the first flourishing of post-modernism, should not be surprising.
	www.iotacenter.org /program/publication/moritz/moritz21 (2026 words)

	McLaren, Norman
		McLaren, Norman, director of animated films (b at Stirling, Scot 11 Apr 1914; d at Montréal 26 Jan 1987).
		Constantly innovative, McLaren tried techniques such as drawings scratched directly on film, cutout animation, painting directly on film, etc. During the COLD WAR in 1952, using a technique of stop-motion cinematography called pixilation, he made Neighbours, a political fable on the futility of using violence to resolve conflict.
		McLaren's creative genius made him Canada's leading director of animated film.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004964 (345 words)

	The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren
		An exemplary modernist, Norman McLaren was at once a practitioner and a theorist of animated art.
		All of McLaren's films may be considered as filmic adventures in-between, both in the sense of intervening between frames in unexpected ways, and in treating the film strip, that physical thing that ordinarily mediates between camera and projector, as the primary object of artistic activity.
		McLaren commented: “For me, cinema is a form of dance.” In Dollar Dance (1943), a suspiciously happy whistling tune and Disney-like voiceover provide the soundtrack for another experiment in metamorphosis, this time focussing on the protean capacities of that “universal fetishised equivalent” (Marx), the dollar.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/norman_mclaren.html (1565 words)

	140-144 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norman McLaren never made a full-length feature movie or documentary but his work with Canada’s National Film Board has won more than 100 international awards — including a Hollywood Oscar and prizes at numerous global film festivals.
		While he was there, Communist forces overran the village; this gave McLaren his second taste of the horror and futility of war and led inexorably to his creation of Neighbours in 1952 as a protest to the Korean conflict.
		Norman McLaren was a film pioneer who was also an accomplished artist whose genius lay in his practice of drawing directly onto each frame of the film to be projected.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/140-144.htm (994 words)

	New Norman McLaren Prize to be presented to the winner of the Short Film Palme d’Or
		We are delighted to pair the Norman McLaren Prize with this award in tribute to this great master of animated shorts, who is an inspiration for filmmakers around the world.
		The Norman McLaren Prize includes a cash prize of €3000 for the director along with an optional offer from the NFB to take care of international distribution of the winning short film and/or co-produce/invest in the winner’s next short film.
		The Norman McLaren Prize will be presented on Sunday, May 22 at 11:00 am at La Plage des Palmes in the presence of the president and members of the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury.
	www.reelwest.com /happening/wire/april_2005/mclaren_prize.htm (321 words)

	Begone Dull Care
		Norman McLaren joined the National Film Board of Canada at John Grierson's invitation in 1941.
		McLaren used such manipulations of celluloid, pioneered in experimental film by Len Lye (2), at the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in the early 1930s, helping to account for the film's striking similarities to Lye's A Colour Box (1935).
		McLaren also reveals the simple yet efficient logic of the film's formal articulation: the complexity of the visual motifs increases proportionally with the complexity of the musical score.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/begone_dull_care.html (944 words)

	Targetti news EVENTS
		An additional element contributing to the complexity of this project was the need to ensure the high aesthetic quality of the building’s design in order to guarantee the confidentiality of the activities carried out inside, whilst impacting the surrounding environment in a non invasive way.
		Paying strategic attention to the lighting factor, Foster and McLaren chose Targetti as the sole supplier for all the lighting fixtures throughout the building and in the surrounding areas.
		Moreover, since natural light floods into the building through the glass walls, as well as the “luminous towers” which conduct light from the roof right down to the ground floor, Paragon has been designed to perfectly mix sunlight (which is filtered and uniformly distributed), with the artificial light emitted by the fixtures.
	www.targetti.com /news.asp?id_categoria=4&nome_categoria=EVENTS&id_articolo=364&anno=2004&lingua=inglese (653 words)

	Milestone Films - Movie Details - Norman McLaren: The Collector's Edition - by: Norman McLaren
		Norman McLaren was a cinematic virtuoso and perhaps the medium's greatest innovator.
		Over the course of fifty years, McLaren produced 60 films (mostly for the National Film Board of Canada) in a stunning range of styles and techniques.
		Norman McLaren: Collector's Edition showcases 14 of McLaren's best films reflecting the incredible diversity of his work: Neighbours, Begone Dull Care, Pas de deux, Boogie-Doodle, Synchromy, Mosaic, A Phantasy, Blinkity Blank, Le Merle, Lines-Horizontal, A Chairy Tale, Animated Motion: Part 5, New York Lightboard Record, and Narcissus.
	www.milestonefilms.com /movie.php/mclaren (360 words)

	Artist's Profile: Norman McLaren — iota
		Born in Scotland, Norman McLaren studied at the Glasgow School of Art and began painting directly on film when he was 19.
		In 1939 McLaren moved to New York, and two years later, he hooked up with Grierson again, this time at the National Film Board of Canada.
		McLaren made about 50 short films for the NFB and was instrumental in establishing its world-famous animation department.
	www.iotacenter.org /program/publication/moritz/Absolut/normanmclaren (224 words)

	CBC Arts: New Cannes film prize to honour Canadian animator
		We are delighted to associate it with the Norman McLaren Prize to pay homage to this master of the animated short, who is a source of inspiration for many filmmakers worldwide," Cannes director general Veronique Cayla said in a statement, adding that in 2006, Cannes will present a selection of McLaren's films.
		McLaren is considered an innovator in the world of animation for playing with tradition and trying new techniques, like making scratches, holes or drawing directly onto the filmstrip.
		McLaren's attempts to reinvent animation are still celebrated by young filmmakers today, says Bensimon.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/04/28/Arts/mclarenprize050728.html (488 words)

	GRAPHIC GUILD MONTREAL - Art prints : Biography of Norman McLAREN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norman McLaren was born in Stirling Scotland in 1914; he died in Montreal in 1987.
		In the meantime also, McLaren was drawing on paper as well as on film.
		These serigraphies reveal the artistic creativity and the exceptional craftsmanship so characteristic of McLaren's outstanding contribution to the world of the image.
	www.guildegraphique.com /lareneb.htm (152 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Norman McLaren: MAIN
		Innovative and distinguished animator Norman McLaren has made a number of award-winning animated films and is credited for perfecting Len Lye's...
		Norman McLaren was one of the most significant abstract filmmakers of the...
		Norman McLaren was a cinematic virtuoso and perhaps the medium's greatest...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=102215 (266 words)

	Prix Héritage-Norman-McLaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This award was established in 1988 by ASIFA-Canada and Guy Glover, for the estate of Norman McLaren.
		The award will be given on each occasion to a body of workby a film-maker, or group of film-makers,or an institution which ASIFA-Canada believes maintains the film-making heritage of Norman McLaren.
		Norman McLaren Heritage Award/Le Prix Héritage Norman McLaren
	www.awn.com /asifa-canada/norman.html (85 words)

	Canadian Heritage Film Festival Screening - A Chairy Tale, Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, Claude Jutra, 1957
		Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, Claude Jutra, 1957, Silent, 10 min 5 sec, bw
		This directorial collaboration of three of the geniuses of the NFB is a surrealistic fable without words told through the pixillation stop-action technique.
		He is total creation." Jutra acted in and co-directed this film that McLaren shot partly with pixillation and partly at 12 frames a second.
	scfs.ca /chff/program/films/chairytale.html (303 words)

	CBC Arts: NFB gives award at Cannes in honour of McLaren
		The NFB created the award to honour Norman McLaren, one of the board's most prolific and innovative animators.
		The first Norman McLaren Award was given to Ukrainian filmmaker Igor Strembitskyy on Sunday.
		McLaren worked with the United Nations on programs to teach film and animation techniques in China and India.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/05/23/Arts/NFBCannes_050523.html (465 words)

	WLU Film & Video Collection - V0469
		Norman McLaren is one of the world’s great animators.
		Visionary poet, master of technique and trailblazer of animation cinema, McLaren has been showered with honors, doctorates and distinctions of all kinds but he always preferred the quiet of his studio to the din of publicity.
		McLaren uses a slow-motion, multi-image technique to dramatize the beauty of white-clad dancers moving on a completely fl stage to the haunting music of panpipes.
	info.wlu.ca /mtr/MediaCollection/G/v469.shtml (256 words)

	ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of my favorite parts of the film is when Mclaren forces the perception of the audience to the view that 5 or 6 moving white dots on a totally fl screen are the lights of living beings striving against same primordial darkness.
		The film in which Mclaren uses live action footage of two ballet dancers and a film recorder to create a lyrical work where thousands of images dance, freeze, spin, and superimpose across time at an artificially established rates of speed within a high contrasted world of light and dark.
		I quickly put on Mclaren`s 1952 Oscar winning short animation Neighbors in which the filmmaker uses actors as stop motion models making them float in the air and slide on their bellies in a manner impossible at that time without the frame by frame creation techniques that can only be called animation.
	www.asifa-hollywood.org /2004/11/this-morning-after-election-let-us.html (613 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Norman McLaren Collector's Edition DVD
		Between his arrival in Canada in 1941 and his death in 1987, Scottish-born animator Norman McLaren ploughed a remarkable 50-film furrow - the most exceptional examples of which are gathered together on this double-disc box set.
		For the uninitiated, McLaren specialised in radical short animations, feeding off everyone from Mondrian to the surrealists, and encompassed a huge variety of techniques.
		But McLaren also prowled the most extreme ends of abstract art - probably the most remarkable film in this collection is Synchromy, from 1971, where McLaren stamped the same block design on the optical and the soundtrack portion of the film stock, so you hear an artificial noise that exactly corresponds with what you see.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,985724,00.html (189 words)

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