Blackfly

Name: Blackfly
Released: 1991-12-28T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 6.3

1991 • 5 min • ★ 6.3 (21) • Released

Animation Comedy Family Music

A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.

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Original title: Blackfly
Language: EN
Country: CA
Budget: —
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Reviews & Ratings 1

CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 7.0

For us Scots, it’s the dreaded midgie. In North On-Tay-Ry-Oh, it’s the equally pesky black fly that haunts these railwaymen as they tried to survey for a new route through the pristine wilderness of late 1940s Canada. Wade Hemsworth's jolly ditty he wrote at the time, coupled with some engaging and humorous hand-drawn animation, shows us just how pervasive these varmints could be as they infiltrated homes, clothes and even the food of these sturdy workmen. There is a lovely fluidity to the drawing with the undulations of the terrain, the rivers, waterfalls and forestry all given a simple yet vivacious perspective as the lyric warns us of the fate of all at the mercy of the flies. Well worth five minutes but beware: it might have you itching afterwards…

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animals critters music ontario, canada short film

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