23 Skidoo (film)

23 Skidoo
title card
Directed by Julian Biggs
Produced by Guy Glover (exec., uncr.)
Julian Biggs
Cinematography Paul Leach
Edited by Julian Biggs
Kathleen Shannon
Production
company
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
 8 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

23 Skidoo is a 1964 short experimental black-and-white film directed by Julian Biggs and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Its central images are "eerie" and "disturbing" scenes of downtown Montreal devoid of people.[1][2] The film offers no explanation for what happened to the people until a scene in a newsroom where we glimpse a never-completed report about the explosion of the first neutron bomb.[3]

In 1965 the film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Best Short Film", and was also nominated for a UN Award. It won "Special Mention" in the international competition at the Cracow Film Festival that year.[4]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 23 Skidoo at National Film Board of Canada website
  2. ↑ DeWolf, Christopher (22 August 2008). "From the NFB archives: 23 Skidoo". Spacing Montreal. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Sachleben, Mark (2014). "The war to end humanity?". World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture. University Press of Kentucky. p. 93. ISBN 9780813143132. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  4. ↑ IMDB Awards


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