Norman McLaren dvd box

The Masters EditionHome Vision Entertainment | 1933-1983 | 58 Movies | 900 min | Unrated | Oct 17, 2006.
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It isn't at all strange that the NFB has chosen its 65th anniversary to be the McLaren Year. NFB's and Norman McLaren's history have been completely related since its begginings. McLaren came to the call of documentarian John Grierson, for whom he had worked previously at the General Post Office Film Unit, to join him at the newly formed NFB. Soon after his incorporation , Grierson asked McLaren the formation of an animation unit, which would be formed in later years by Evelyn Lambart (1942), Jean-Paul Ladouceur (1942), René Jodoin(1943), Grant Munro (1944) and Robert Verrall (1945). Until his death in 1987 McLaren remained at the NFB as its main figure in animation. You may find more details about the McLaren Year's activities here .
McLaren was born in Scotland in 1914. He initiated his art studies at the Glasgow School of FIne Arts in 1932. There he began to get interested in cinema, and through the Glasgow Film Society he discovered the works of Eisenstein and Pudovkin, whose editing techniques are recognizable in his first works, and then Oskar Fischinger. The first two works of McLaren , Seven Till Five (1933) and Camera makes Whoopee (1935) are very formalist. It is wothyof note the second one, in which McLaren makes already use, although briefly, of animation and even pixilation, a technique that he would develop later.