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Blackfly

Title
Blackfly [motion picture] / National Film Board of Canada ; produced by Bill Pettigrew.
Publication
New York : The Board, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Hinton, Christopher.
  • Hemsworth, Wade.
  • National Film Board of Canada.
Description
1 film reel (5 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
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" proved 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
  • Animated films
  • Folk songs > Canada
  • Insects > Fiction
  • Flies > Fiction
  • Canada > Fiction
Note
  • 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 [motion picture] / 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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Hinton, Christopher.
Hemsworth, Wade.
National Film Board of Canada.
Branch Call Number
J M16 A-796 B
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