Blackbird
Original title: Le merle / The Blackbird
1958 · 4 min
Cast
No credited cast is listed for this film.
Credits
Cinematography: Douglas Poulter
Music: Maurice Blackburn
Produced by: 
Norman McLaren
Plot
To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.
Sinekatalog’s take
A nimble animated short set to a nonsense folk song, in which a line-drawn blackbird loses parts and regrows them in abundance. Playful and surreal, it showcases hand-crafted animation at its most inventive.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (579 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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