Le Merle

Directed by Norman McLaren · 1958

A cut-out blackbird loses its beak, neck, eye, wings and feet one by one — then gets them back in twos and threes — to the rhythm of a lively French-Canadian folk song.

Norman McLaren turns a cumulative French-Canadian folk song into a delightfully absurd paper cut-out romp.

Animation de papier découpé mettant en vedette un merle qui perd tour à tour son bec, son cou, son oeil, ses ailes, ses pattes, et qui les retrouve en double et en triple, en suivant le rythme d'une chanson folklorique i

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