Blinkity Blank

Blinkity Blank
Blinkity Blank
Produced by	Norman McLaren
Music by	Maurice Blackburn
Release date	1955;

Blinkity Blank is a 1955 animated short film by Norman McLaren, 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.^[1]

Blinkity Blank 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".^[2]

It received the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival,^[3] the first prize for Best Animated Film at the BAFTA Awards as well as a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Blinkity Blank was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.^[4]

References[]

^ 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.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Blinkity Blank". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
^ "Blinkity Blank". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

External links[]

Watch Blinkity Blank at NFB.ca

This Quebec-related film article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

This article related to a short animated film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] Rist, Peter (2001). Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. Greenwood Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 0-313-29931-5.

[Schaffer-2] Schaffer, Bill (2005). "The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren". Senses of Cinema (35). Retrieved 16 March 2011.

[festival-cannes.com-3] "Festival de Cannes: Blinkity Blank". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2011-03-14.

[coll-4] "Blinkity Blank". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t 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

v t Short Film Palme d'Or winners
1950s	White Mane – Albert Lamorisse (1953) Blinkity Blank – Norman McLaren (1955) The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse (1956) – Ion Popescu-Gopo (1957) N.Y., N.Y. – Francis Thompson (1959) – Halina Bielinska and (1959)
1960s	– (1961) La Rivière du hibou – Robert Enrico (1961) – and (1963) – Edmond Séchan (1963) – François Reichenbach (1964) – (1964) Nyitany – (1965) Skaterdater – Noel Black (1966) – (1967) – (1969)
1970s	Magic Machines – Bob Curtis (1970) – Jean Chapot (1972) Balablok – Bretislav Pojar (1973) Ostrov – Fyodor Khitruk, and (1974) Lautrec – Geoff Dunbar (1975) Metamorphosis – Barry Greenwald (1976) The Struggle – Marcell Jankovics (1977) Rowing Across the Atlantic – Jean-François Laguionie (1978) Harpya – Raoul Servais (1979)
1980s	Seaside Woman – (1980) – (1981) – Arthur Joffé (1982) – Pierre Levy (1983) – and (1984) – (1984) – and Rumen Petkov (1985) An Exercise in Discipline - Peel – Jane Campion (1986) – Laurie McInnes (1987) Vykrutasy – Garry Bardin (1988) 50 ans – Gilles Carle (1989)
1990s	The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson (1990) – (1991) Omnibus – (1992) Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California – Jim Jarmusch (1993) El héroe– Carlos Carrera (1994) – (1995) – (1996) – (1997) – Xavier Giannoli (1998) When the Day Breaks – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (1999)
2000s	– (2000) – (2001) – (2002) – (2003) Trafic – Cătălin Mitulescu (2004) – (2005) Sniffer – (2006) Ver Llover – Elisa Miller (2007) – (2008) Arena – João Salaviza (2009)
2010s	– Serge Avédikian (2010) – (2011) – (2012) – (2013) Leidi – Simón Mesa Soto (2014) Waves '98 – Ely Dagher (2015) Timecode – Juanjo Giménez (2016) A Gentle Night - (2017) All These Creatures – Charles Williams (2018) The Distance Between Us and the Sky – Vasilis Kekatos (2019)
2020s	– Sameh Alaa (2020) – Tang Yi (2021)