Blake (film)

Blake is a Canadian short film by Bill Mason in 1969.

Action

The film follows the animator James Blake, describe the colleagues as a natural man. Blake keeps himself reluctantly in the city, into which he mainly comes to work. True to the motto " What you do not spend, you do not deserve," he drives an old, run-down car. He lives in a cabin in the woods and colleagues report that they thought this was only for an eccentric scam that should impress the women with the time noted, however, that Blake really wanted to live. Colleagues wish sometimes to have such a strong desire for freedom as Blake and live so freely as he did.

Blake has a small plane, with whom he is often on the road for days. He's flying the plane without emergency parachute. During the flight he sings or plays the harmonica. When he once run out of gas, he flies to ado the next big airport, where one takes his arrival and his departure with humor. Since the aircraft has no light, it can not fly at night. As Blake once in the evening becomes disoriented due to fog, he lands on a meadow and lies down for the night sleeping under his plane. The next morning he is awakened by the arrival of a boy, he shows the aircraft. Colleagues report of Blake's private life, that he was never married and a friend of his separated because they are not ready to put it, the very own Blake imagine their parents. Blake, meanwhile, makes ready, and finally flies off.

Production

The shooting of Blake retreated throughout a year, said Bill Mason turned the flying scenes from a separate aircraft. The scenes at the airport played on the Aéroport international de Montréal- Dorval in Montreal from. The film contains no dialogue, but comments from colleagues that are recorded to the documentary footage. Producer of the film was the National Film Board of Canada.

Blake was first released in 1969 and 1970 was also in the movies as a supporting film to M * A * S * H.

Awards

Blake was nominated in 1970 for Best Short film for an Oscar in the category. On the Melbourne International Film Festival, the film won the 1971 Grand Prix and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1971 for Best Short Film.

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