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Blinkity Blank
19555 min 29 secFilm: Experimental, Animation
Direction: Norman McLaren
Production: Norman McLaren
With an explosion of abstract
images engraved directly on film, this well-known Norman McLaren film shows
bird-like creatures engaged in a strange dance of seduction.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Norman McLaren Animation techniques
- Arts Education > Art
- Media Education > Film Animation
Credits
- director
- Norman McLaren
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
- musician
- Bert Niosi
- Lew Lewis
- Gordon Day
- Isaac Mamott
- Perry Bauman
- recording
- Roger Beaudry
- Joseph Champagne
- producer
- Norman McLaren
- animation
- Norman McLaren
Awards
- Silver BearInternational Film Festival
- Grand Prix - Palme d'orInternational Film Festival
- First Prize - Best Animated FilmBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards
- Diploma of MeritInternational Film Festival
- Fourth PrizeInternation Prize
- Certificate of Merit - Category: DocumentaryInternational Film Festival
- First Honourable Mention - Category: Experimental FilmsSODRE International Festival of Documentary and experimental Films
- Certificat de mériteInternational Film Festival