programme includes

Opening Speech
A film in which McLaren is caught by his own film tricks. He attempts to welcome an audience, but is frustrated by an animated microphone that has a will of its own.

Stars and Stripes
An experiment in film animation in which "stars" and "stripes" perform acrobatics to a sprightly march tune. The film was made without a camera, by McLaren drawing and colouring directly on film.

Hen Hop
This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.

Begone Dull Care
An extraordinary animation in which Evelyn Lambart and McLaren painted directly on film. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.

Blinkity Blank
An experiment in the use of intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. McLaren plays with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye. He engraves pictures on blank film, with percussive effects added in the same way. Film without words.

A Chairy Tale
In this Oscar-nominated short film, a chair, animated by Evelyn Lambart, refuses to be sat upon, forcing a young man to perform a sort of dance with the chair. The musical accompaniment is by Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal. This virtuoso film is the result of a collaboration between McLaren and Claude Jutra.

Le Merle
McLaren imparts unusual activity to an old French-Canadian nonsense song. Simple white cut-outs on pastel backgrounds, many by Evelyn Lambart, provide lively illustrations. The folksong "Mon Merle" is sung in French by the Trio Lyrique of Montreal.

Lines Horizontal
An experiment in pure design by McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films by American folk musician Pete Seeger.

Pas de deux
A cinematic study of the choreography of ballet. A bare, black set with the back-lit figures of dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like, hypnotic effect.

Synchromy
Here are pyrotechnics of the keyboard, but with only a camera to "play the tune." To make this film, McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the sound track. These he then moved, in multicolour, onto the picture area of the screen so that, in effect, you see what you hear. It is synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word.

Neighbours
Oscar-winning short film. McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.