Photo Friday | 20 Brilliant Pictures of Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a genius, an artisan and a magician. In 1941, the young Scottish-born animator moved to Canada at the invitation of...
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How to Use the New McLaren’s Workshop App in Your Classroom
Interactive apps are an amazing addition to the classroom, as they offer students a unique way to learn new media skills and develop their creative abilities. Teaching animation is a...
Make a Norman McLaren of Yourself with Our New iPad App
Yesterday, we launched McLaren’s Workshop, a nifty free iPad app aimed at making the world a bit less unfair. Because let’s be honest: life is terribly unfair. Most of us...
New Montreal Educational Workshop Studios Now Open!
By Estelle Lagueux, Supervisor, Educational Programs It was with nervous anticipation that the NFB’s new educational programming team recently welcomed its first group of students to a freshly redesigned space...
Frog Meets Mouse: Evelyn Lambart’s Mr. Frog Went A-Courting
Check out Evelyn Lambart's superb paper cutout animation about the unlikely entanglements of a frog and a pointy-snouted mouse.
Keep Your Mouth Shut: McLaren’s 1944 “Stop Snitching” Film
If remembering the past is essential to understanding the present, remembering the NFB’s past is essential and occasionally totally hilarious. Consider for example Keep Your Mouth Shut, a 1944 animated...
Hot Shots: Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra and Ravi Shankar on Set in 1957
A Chairy Tale is a short film about a chair with a mind of its own that refuses to be sat on. It was directed by NFB legends Norman McLaren...
70 Years of Animation, Part 2 – Norman McLaren
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. In Part One, I mentioned that while the NFB initially lacked an animation department, by signing...
U.S. high school students get engaged with NFB films
On October 6, 2011, I had the great opportunity to deliver a customized NFB Media Literacy workshop at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C....
Neighbours: The NFB’s Second Oscar Winner
The story behind the production and distribution of Norman McLaren's Neighbours; The National Film Board's second Oscar winner.
Norman McLaren and the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry
It was announced last week that the complete works of Norman McLaren has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Memory of the World Registry....
Extreme remixes McLaren’s Neighbours
A while back, the heavy metal group Extreme released a single called Rest in Peace. The video has a vaguely familiar feel to it. Watch Norman McLaren’s animated short Neighbours...