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Joseph Albert Maurice Blackburn (22 May 1914, Quebec City - 29 March 1988, Montreal) was a Canadian composer, conductor, sound editor for film, builder of string instruments, and musical adviser. A graduate of the Université Laval and the New England Conservatory, he won the George Allan Prize in 1940. From 1942-1978 he worked as a film composer for the National Film Board of Canada, where he was a frequent collaborator of Norman McLaren. Together they developed techniques for etching sound and image directly on film. Blackburn composed the music for McLaren's animation film Blinkity Blank (1954) which won 12 prizes, including the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1983 he was awarded the Albert-Tessier Prize by the Quebec government. Science Fiction writer Esther Rochon

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  • Joseph Albert Maurice Blackburn (22 May 1914, Quebec City - 29 March 1988, Montreal) was a Canadian composer, conductor, sound editor for film, builder of string instruments, and musical adviser. A graduate of the Université Laval and the New England Conservatory, he won the George Allan Prize in 1940. From 1942-1978 he worked as a film composer for the National Film Board of Canada, where he was a frequent collaborator of Norman McLaren. Together they developed techniques for etching sound and image directly on film. Blackburn composed the music for McLaren's animation film Blinkity Blank (1954) which won 12 prizes, including the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1983 he was awarded the Albert-Tessier Prize by the Quebec government. Science Fiction writer Esther Rochon (en)
  • Maurice Blackburn (né le 22 mai 1914 à Québec, mort le 29 mars 1988 (à 73 ans) à Montréal) est un compositeur de musique de film canadien. Blackburn a étudié composition musicale à l'Université Laval de 1937 à 1939 et au New England Conservatory de Boston' entre 1939 et 1941. À son retour de Boston, il a travaillé sur les émissions, entre autres à Radio-Canada. En 1941, il a fait la composition d'une musique pour un film de l'Office national du film, Le Temps des sucres, son premier avec l'ONF. (fr)
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