Blinkity Blank

Blinkity Blank


                                Blinkity Blank
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This experimental short film by Norman McLaren is a playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.

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Blinkity Blank , Norman McLaren, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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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

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