This experiment uses intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery, playing with "persistence of vision". The visuals were engraved and colored on opaque black film stock. Maurice Blackburn's music made use of some degree of improvisation.
Original title: Blinkity Blank
Directed by: Norman MCLAREN
Country: Canada
Year of production: 1955
Running time: 05 min 01 s
Category: Short film
Techniques used: drawing on film (scratching)
Process: Colour
Directed by: Norman MCLAREN
Production: ONF - OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA
Script: Norman McLaren
Animation: Norman McLaren
Music: Maurice Blackburn
Sound: R. Beaudry