Blackfly

Duration: 5

Year Published: 1991

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

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