How will the blackbird sing?

In 1958, the great Norman McLaren utilized paper cut-outs to transform 

a French–Canadian nonsensical folk song into this playfully surrealistic animation.

In 1940, the same song had inspired a book project by Bruno Munari.

Published for the first time in 1987, it was recently reprinted by Corraini

using silk-screen printing on transparent plastic sheets.

Two lovely examples of genius in simplicity!