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Blackfly
- Title
- Blackfly [videorecording] / National Film Board of Canada ; produced by Bill Pettigrew.
- Publication
- New York : The Board, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | J VTH 2287 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (5 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This "witty and irreverent" animated film, based on Wade Hemsworth's 1949 folksong, is a cautionary tale concerning man versus nature. One early spring, the protagonist was sent by the unemployment office to the forests of northern Ontario to re-direct water flow for a hydroelectric dam. The forces of "progress" prove futile against an attack of the insatiable and multi-talented swarms of blackflies, causing our beleaguered surveyor-hero to lament: "Twas blackfly, blackfly everywhere, a-crawlin' in your whiskers, a-crawlin' in your hair, a-swimmin' in the soup, a-swimmin' in the tea, the devil take the blackfly, and let me be!" The soundtrack is performed by Wade Hemsworth with arrangements and back-up vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
- Subject
- Note
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Based on "The Blackfly song," by Wade Hemsworth.
- Credits (note)
- Director, animator, Christopher Hinton; camera, Jacques Avoine, Pierre Landry, Raymond Dumas, Lynda Pelley; music, Wade Hemsworth.
- Title
- Blackfly [videorecording] / National Film Board of Canada ; produced by Bill Pettigrew.
- Imprint
- New York : The Board, 1991.
- Credits
- Director, animator, Christopher Hinton; camera, Jacques Avoine, Pierre Landry, Raymond Dumas, Lynda Pelley; music, Wade Hemsworth.
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- Added Author
- Hinton, Christopher.Hemsworth, Wade.National Film Board of Canada.
- Branch Call Number
- J VTH 2287 B