Blinkity Blank

Blinkity Blank
Directed by	Norman McLaren
Produced by	Norman McLaren
Music by	Maurice Blackburn Musicians: Bert Niosi Lew Lewis Gordon Day Isaac Mamott Perry Bauman
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1955 (1955)
Languages	English, French

Blinkity Blank is a 1955 animated short film created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. It won, among other awards, both the Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes^[1] and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.^[2]

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Production

Engraved directly onto black film leader, Blinkity Blank features a soundtrack combining improvisational jazz from composer Maurice Blackburn along with graphical sounds created by McLaren scratching onto the film's optical soundtrack.^[3]

The film features lines, dots and other abstract forms, along with fruits, trees, planets and chickens—the latter featured at length in another McLaren hand-drawn film Hen Hop—which blink in and out of existence, or merge with or modulate other shapes. McLaren also left some frames blank, which he described as "sprinkling on the empty band of time".^[4]

Awards

Cannes Film Festival, Cannes: Short Film Palme d'Or, 1955
9th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, 1956
Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin: Silver Bear, 1955
Franco-American International Film Festival, Paris: Fourth Prize, 1955
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh: Diploma of Merit, 1955
Cape Town International Film Festival, Cape Town: Certificate of Merit, Documentary, 1955
Durban International Film Festival, Durban: Certificate of Merit, Documentary, 1955
SODRE International Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films, Montevideo: First Honourable Mention, Experimental Films, 1956

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Blinkity Blank". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
^ "Blinkity Blank". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^ Rist, Peter (2001). Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. Greenwood Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 0-313-29931-5.
^ Schaffer, Bill (2005). "The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren". Senses of Cinema (35). Retrieved 16 March 2011.

External links

Watch Blinkity Blank on the NFB website
Blinkity Blank at IMDb

v t e Norman McLaren
Films	Boogie-Doodle (1940) Hen Hop (1942) Begone Dull Care (1949) Neighbours (1952) Blinkity Blank (1955) Rythmetic (1956) A Chairy Tale (1957) Christmas Cracker (1963) Canon (1964) Pas de deux (1968) Synchromy (1971) Narcissus (1983)
Related articles	McLaren's Negatives Begone Dull Care (album) Evelyn Lambart Maurice Blackburn Pixilation

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