Grant Munro

This film, shot in pixilation (a kind of stop-motion animation with actors), is about two neighbors who come to barbaric blows over a flowers that straddles the property line (imdb)

Documentary of McLaren's creative process.

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon "Frere Jacques" where four cubes dance and combine with one another on a checkerboard. The second sequence show four little human-like figures dancing in space. The third and most elaborate sequence shows a human going through several strange gesticulations. (imdb)

This Oscar-nominated animation short is comprised of three segments linked by a court jester dancing that looks like still photos being flipped. (imdb comments)

Two short Norman McLaren films in which animation technique is employed with live actors. In the first, entitled On the Lawn, a male dancer waltzes to synthetic music. The second is a fast march, In the Backyard, accompanied by an old-fashioned calliope. (nfb.ca)

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc traveling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos. (bcdb.com)

In this second film, Norman McLaren presents the first three of the five categories of motion: constant, accelerated, and decelerated. Various types of acceleration and deceleration are demonstrated, and examples are shown of how these types of motion may be applied in regard to gesture, gravity, and perspective. (bcdb.com)

Zero motion and irregular motion (the other two of the five categories of motion) are examined by Norman McLaren in this part of the series. Immobility (or "zero motion") and its duration, when occurring within a context of motion, plays a vital role in animation. The student sees how irregular motion, though seldom found in nature, can be used freely by the animator. (bcdb.com)

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one action, such as the motions of jointed or pivoted parts (as occur in animal and human movements). Also shown is a human gesture with increasing amounts of emotion; and finally, the phenomenon of "strobing" in animation is examined. (bcdb.com)

A chain smoking woman encounters a vampire! (imdb)

To encounter the work of Grant Munro is to discover an artist of inimitable talent and charm. Whether as animator, documentarian, actor, dancer, editor, cinematographer, or general provocateur, his talent, humor, passion, and all-out goofiness have graced the world of cinema for more than fifty years. (imdb)

An enthusiastic but naive campaign worker causes trouble for his candidate due to his unorthodox campaign tactics, which turn out to violate the election law. (imdb)

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music. (imdb)

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren. (imdb)

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol. In this one, Ebenezer Stooge runs a power company, and he's actually nice to his employee, Bob Scratchet. But he's also incredibly wasteful of all kinds of energy. Eb goes home on Christmas Eve and turns in, leaving the lights on but when he closes the electric drapes on his bed, the lights go out, and the ghosts visit. (imdb)

A portrait of Canadian filmmaker Grant Munro (imdb)