"Director: Norman McLaren"

• The General Post Office Film Unit Collection Vol.2 - We Live In Two Worlds | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £12.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (95.23%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. A hotbed of creative energy and talent it provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement including John Grierson Alberto Cavalcanti Humphrey Jennings Basil Wright Harry Watt Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information drama-documentary social reportage animation advertising and many points in between. The BFI National Archive in partnership with the British Postal Heritage Museum Royal Mail and British Telecom has preserved and curated the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. This the second of three volumes represents the GPO Film Unit at its creative height - including much-loved classics such as Night Mail the experimental animations of Len Lye and Norman McLaren and Harry Watts' first forays into drama documentary with The Saving of Bill Blewitt and North Sea.

• Narcissus | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Narcissus features three of Norman McLaren's finest works. Narcissus: In Narcissus Norman McLaren's balletic interpretation of the Greek myth dancers enact the tragedy of the beautiful youth who condemns himself to a trapped existence through excessive self-love. Visually stunning the film is a compendium of McLaren techniques developed over a lifetime of experimentation. Film dance and music are skillfully merged to celebrate the ancient myth and its timeless significance

• The GPO Story | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By the way of an introduction to the GPO Classic Collection, The GPO Story, co-produced by The Post Office and the BBC, tells the story of the GPO Film Unit's bold experiments in movie-making. Extracts from many of the classics are included, as are interviews with many of the GPO film-makers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat Jackson, R.Q. McNaughton, Ralph Bond and Ken Cameron. Also included are six colour animated films from the 1930s:

• Norman McLaren Collection | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £54.99 (274.95%)   |  RRP £74.99

  Norman McLaren is a giant in the history of the art of animation and his work forms a coherent and extraordinary body of work influencing and inspiring artists animators and filmmakers from Picasso and Truffaut to Lucas and Linklater. For the first time his work has been collected to form a definitive seven DVD Masters Edition box set. To illustrate his creative process and sources of inspiration the set includes numerous tests unfinished films and fifteen original thematic documentaries that show the artist in a new light. The restorative process was undertaken with the highest care and sensitivity to remain faithful to the originals whilst also digitally enhancing colour and sound. The Norman McLaren Masters Edition features all his surviving works including the Oscar winning Neighbours (1952) and the BAFTA winning Pas De Deux.

• Various Composers - Pas De Deux: La International Ballet | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £20.35   |  Saving you £-1.36 (-7.20%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Various Composers - Pas De Deux: La International Ballet