Thursday, June 23, 2011

How will the blackbird sing?



In 1958, the great Norman McLaren utilized paper cut-outs to transform 
a French–Canadian nonsensical folk song into this playfully surrealistic animation.



In 1940, the same song had inspired a book project by Bruno Munari.
Published for the first time in 1987, it was recently reprinted by Corraini
using silk-screen printing on transparent plastic sheets.

Two lovely examples of genius in simplicity!

2 comments:

  1. Watched the animation while blackbirds are singing in my garden, great!

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  2. Hi Renilde, blackbirds are in my garden too!

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