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Blinky Bill (film)
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Blinky Bill is a 1992 animated movie animated by Sydney-based Yoham Gross Films
Studios. It was released in Australia on 17 September 1992.
The opening scene starts with a view upon a local woodlanders home, where it is inhabited with the country outback animals, one on whom is a mischievous young koala named Blinky Bill who loves to have fun and play tricks all day long. One summer the animals all got together for a sing along and went to bed at a later time.
The next morning, two men are seen pouring petrol tank in their machine ready to take down the entire forest, the fat man is called Harry and his tall skinny, yet not every bright assistant is called Joe. They plan to take down the whole bush. As Harry starts up his machine, Blinky is at home playing behind his mother's back. He goes out the window to have fun, only to see the machines and run for his life, the Mayor Pelican who saw the commotion calls out to all the woodlanders to evacuate as more trees continue to fall down upon the animals, and more trees are cut down including Mrs Koala's home, and a tree knocks Blinky Bill unconscious.
Sun rises and shows that all that's left is a pile of rubble broken, fallen old trees and debree all over the grounds, showing that the men have destroy many of the animals homes and leaving the animals homeless. Every animal moves out of the grounds to search for a new home, including an wombat named Wombo, (though he hates to be called that) who looks to see if Blinky Bill is alive but not seeing him move, which makes him think he was dead and carry on. Blinky Bill, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky thenn finds an old slingshot and some pebbles to go with it. Fully equipped, he sets off to search for anyone that might be around. He then hears a faint call and thinks it his mother, he hurries towards the voice only to see a doll moving about fighting him, but when he sees the doll motionless he sees someone elses hand and digs out to reveal a young female koala named Nutsy, whom Blinky helps and takes her with him.
The cute female koala asks him who is he, and Blinky realizes he can't remember, the koala introduces herself to him and exclaiming how their homes were destroyed. They hear a deep murmur in the bush and are frightened by its strangeness, however, they meet up with Wombo who is delighted to see the Blinky still alive. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia and wombat explains to him about the day he was born.
Blinky always gets up to mischief and always gets scolded by Mayor Pelican, his teacher, Miss Magpie, and his mother by his antics, as he once almost got captured by a female shop owner who tried to sell him to the zoo, but escaped with luck. His mother then scolds him and cries about the grief he is causing. her. Feeling very guilty about the trouble he caused, Blinky decides to find her. Wombo tells him about the camp and tells them to go there.
Blinky Bill and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a hearing impaired elderly koala who asks them after much persuasion to take her to the camp.
Blinky and Nusty meet up with Splodge the kangaroo and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs Koala and why she didn't evacuate. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to the waiting line where Mayor Pelican is assigning all the woodlanders to their places. Blinky Bill introduces himself to the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave.. Blinky asks her where his mother is, but Angelina hushes him to console him saying they will look for her in the morning.
As they are served lunch by a female lizard, Blinky asks for directions to the woodchip mill which is a long way from the camp. Later that night, Nutsy realizes that her friend isn't asleep. Blinky tells her about his plan to go back and find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the camp and decide their way to get inside and rescue Blinky's mother. Unfortunately for Blinky and Nutsy, the wood chip mill is home to the woodcutter's family who is unknown to them. Blinky tries to get in by climbing over the fence only to alert a group of dogs.
Joan, the woodcutter's wife, hears something outside, but her husband, Harry, is too tired to care, as it is also home to a small blond-haired girl named Clara, who is Harry and Joan's daughter, and loves animals and is kind and sweet. When the dogs started causing commotion, Clara asks what was that noise but her father tells her to go back to bed.
Blinky tries again to get in by breaking the security light outside the farm, causing Joan to nag Harry out of bed to check it out. Grumbling, the woodcutter looks outside as the two koalas try to get in, he then sees and captures Blinky by the neck and Nutsy frees Blinky by gnawing on the woodcutter's foot. However, she is chased by the two guard dogs who force her to climb up the pipeline and disappear into Clara's room. Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the bad news. They decide to rescue Nutsy despite more guards on the patrol hour, as they work out a plan. The next morning Nusty clambers into Clara's bed whom she wakes up to find a real koala in her bed.
Marcia the marsupial mouse creeps into the kitchen to overhear Clara, introducing Nutsy to the family who takes less interest in her. Her father tells her that the koala needs to go back where it belongs, but Clara defends Nutsy by saying she is beautiful and that she is only a baby and that she'll die alone if released. Harry decides to take her to the zoo tomorrow. After a commotion at the kitchen table starts, the woodcutter's daughter takes Nutsy upstairs.
Marcia reveals the information she hears to the others, and they despite a rescue plan to take place that night, Joan tells Clara to turn the lights out. When Clara wishes her mom good night, she secretly gets out of bed to pick up Nusty who has taken a liking to her and takes her to bed with her, putting her original doll in the doll house.
As Blinky Bill and his friends break in, they cause a big commotion which wakes up the woodcutters, Clara, knowing that they want Nutsy, hides her and herself in the cupboard. The animals escape, and Blinky Bill and Harry fight off against each other. Blinky wins but Harry is left swimming for his life in a basket of liquid. Blinky goes to Clara's room and mistakes Nusty once again with her doll. He looks around the room and sees the toys, he activates come to life, before he bumps into the cupboard which covers Nutsy under a white sheet, but when he sees Nutsy, he hugs her and gets her outside as he hears a faint but familiar voice which he peans the ground door to reveal his mother who is alive and overjoyed to see her son. Blinky and his friends leave the woodchip mill as Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her new found koala friends as they drive off leaving her and the woodcutters alone.
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Plot
The film tells the story of Blinky Bill’s childhood with his animal friends in the Australian bush. The peace and charm of their existence is shattered by the destruction of their homes by humans. Blinky Bill rallies his friends, in a series of exciting adventures, as they battle to protect their homes from destruction and as he rescues his mother from captivity. The animation is superimposed over live colour footage of the Australian bush.The opening scene starts with a view upon a local woodlanders home, where it is inhabited with the country outback animals, one on whom is a mischievous young koala named Blinky Bill who loves to have fun and play tricks all day long. One summer the animals all got together for a sing along and went to bed at a later time.
The next morning, two men are seen pouring petrol tank in their machine ready to take down the entire forest, the fat man is called Harry and his tall skinny, yet not every bright assistant is called Joe. They plan to take down the whole bush. As Harry starts up his machine, Blinky is at home playing behind his mother's back. He goes out the window to have fun, only to see the machines and run for his life, the Mayor Pelican who saw the commotion calls out to all the woodlanders to evacuate as more trees continue to fall down upon the animals, and more trees are cut down including Mrs Koala's home, and a tree knocks Blinky Bill unconscious.
Sun rises and shows that all that's left is a pile of rubble broken, fallen old trees and debree all over the grounds, showing that the men have destroy many of the animals homes and leaving the animals homeless. Every animal moves out of the grounds to search for a new home, including an wombat named Wombo, (though he hates to be called that) who looks to see if Blinky Bill is alive but not seeing him move, which makes him think he was dead and carry on. Blinky Bill, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky thenn finds an old slingshot and some pebbles to go with it. Fully equipped, he sets off to search for anyone that might be around. He then hears a faint call and thinks it his mother, he hurries towards the voice only to see a doll moving about fighting him, but when he sees the doll motionless he sees someone elses hand and digs out to reveal a young female koala named Nutsy, whom Blinky helps and takes her with him.
The cute female koala asks him who is he, and Blinky realizes he can't remember, the koala introduces herself to him and exclaiming how their homes were destroyed. They hear a deep murmur in the bush and are frightened by its strangeness, however, they meet up with Wombo who is delighted to see the Blinky still alive. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia and wombat explains to him about the day he was born.
Blinky always gets up to mischief and always gets scolded by Mayor Pelican, his teacher, Miss Magpie, and his mother by his antics, as he once almost got captured by a female shop owner who tried to sell him to the zoo, but escaped with luck. His mother then scolds him and cries about the grief he is causing. her. Feeling very guilty about the trouble he caused, Blinky decides to find her. Wombo tells him about the camp and tells them to go there.
Blinky Bill and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a hearing impaired elderly koala who asks them after much persuasion to take her to the camp.
Blinky and Nusty meet up with Splodge the kangaroo and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs Koala and why she didn't evacuate. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to the waiting line where Mayor Pelican is assigning all the woodlanders to their places. Blinky Bill introduces himself to the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave.. Blinky asks her where his mother is, but Angelina hushes him to console him saying they will look for her in the morning.
As they are served lunch by a female lizard, Blinky asks for directions to the woodchip mill which is a long way from the camp. Later that night, Nutsy realizes that her friend isn't asleep. Blinky tells her about his plan to go back and find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the camp and decide their way to get inside and rescue Blinky's mother. Unfortunately for Blinky and Nutsy, the wood chip mill is home to the woodcutter's family who is unknown to them. Blinky tries to get in by climbing over the fence only to alert a group of dogs.
Joan, the woodcutter's wife, hears something outside, but her husband, Harry, is too tired to care, as it is also home to a small blond-haired girl named Clara, who is Harry and Joan's daughter, and loves animals and is kind and sweet. When the dogs started causing commotion, Clara asks what was that noise but her father tells her to go back to bed.
Blinky tries again to get in by breaking the security light outside the farm, causing Joan to nag Harry out of bed to check it out. Grumbling, the woodcutter looks outside as the two koalas try to get in, he then sees and captures Blinky by the neck and Nutsy frees Blinky by gnawing on the woodcutter's foot. However, she is chased by the two guard dogs who force her to climb up the pipeline and disappear into Clara's room. Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the bad news. They decide to rescue Nutsy despite more guards on the patrol hour, as they work out a plan. The next morning Nusty clambers into Clara's bed whom she wakes up to find a real koala in her bed.
Marcia the marsupial mouse creeps into the kitchen to overhear Clara, introducing Nutsy to the family who takes less interest in her. Her father tells her that the koala needs to go back where it belongs, but Clara defends Nutsy by saying she is beautiful and that she is only a baby and that she'll die alone if released. Harry decides to take her to the zoo tomorrow. After a commotion at the kitchen table starts, the woodcutter's daughter takes Nutsy upstairs.
Marcia reveals the information she hears to the others, and they despite a rescue plan to take place that night, Joan tells Clara to turn the lights out. When Clara wishes her mom good night, she secretly gets out of bed to pick up Nusty who has taken a liking to her and takes her to bed with her, putting her original doll in the doll house.
As Blinky Bill and his friends break in, they cause a big commotion which wakes up the woodcutters, Clara, knowing that they want Nutsy, hides her and herself in the cupboard. The animals escape, and Blinky Bill and Harry fight off against each other. Blinky wins but Harry is left swimming for his life in a basket of liquid. Blinky goes to Clara's room and mistakes Nusty once again with her doll. He looks around the room and sees the toys, he activates come to life, before he bumps into the cupboard which covers Nutsy under a white sheet, but when he sees Nutsy, he hugs her and gets her outside as he hears a faint but familiar voice which he peans the ground door to reveal his mother who is alive and overjoyed to see her son. Blinky and his friends leave the woodchip mill as Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her new found koala friends as they drive off leaving her and the woodcutters alone.
Main animal characters
- Blinky Bill - a young koala and the titular movie character.
- Nutsy - a female koala and Blinky's adoptive sister. She was by taken in by mistake by Clara, Harry's small daughter, who likes koalas.
- Splodge - Blinky's best friend. he is a kangaroo, who lives with his parents.
- Marcia' - One of Blinky's friends. She is a tomboyish marsupial mouse.
- Flap - A brown platypus and one of Blinky Bill's friends.
Minor animal characters
- Mrs Koala - Blinky Bill and Nutsy's mother. She was kidnapped by Harry and his assistant Joe.
- Mr Wombat - Blinky's mentor. He doesn't like when Blinky calls him "Wombo".
- Miss Magpie - Blinky's school teacher.
- Mayor Pelican - The Greenpatch mayor. He hates it when Blinky gets up to mischief.
- Mr Emu - Mayor Pelican's helper.
- Jacko - A spoiled kookaburra, who often laughs.
- Nurse Angelina - A wallaby, who wears a nurse uniform.
Humans
- Harry - a fat woodcutter, Joe's boss, Joan's husband and Clara's father.
- Joe - Harry's assistant.
- Joan - Harry's wife and Clara's mother.
- Clara - Harry and Joan's six-year-old blonde daughter. She never says goodbye to her stuffed koala.
- Shop assistant - a woman, who has a dislike for koalas.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Robyn Moore | Blinky Bill Blinky Bill Blinky Bill is an anthropomorphic koala and children's fictional character created by New Zealand-born Australian author Dorothy Wall. The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall... and female characters |
| Keith Scott | various male characters |
| Ross Higgins Ross Higgins Ross Higgins is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Ted Bulpitt in the television situation comedy series Kingswood Country.... |
various characters |
Soundtrack
All music composed and produced by Guy Gross. All lyrics written by John Palmer except "You and Me" and "Nutsy's Ballad", where lyrics are by Mattie Porges. All songs performed by Robyn Moore and Keith Scott except where indicated.- "You And Me" - Robyn Dunn and Geoff Robertson, with backing vocals Kevin Bennett
- "I’m Old Man Wombo"
- "I’m Blinky Bill"
- "Arithmetic Song"
- "Gribbet" - Ross Higgins and Guy Gross
- "I Am The Mayor"
- "Nutsy’s Ballad"
- "Motherhood"
- "How I Hate Koalas"
- "Snakes Are So Superior"
- "Country Girls"
- "Don’t Try To Sing Underwater" - Guy Gross
- "Home"
- "Who’s On The Menu Tonight"
- "Whistle Song"
- "Sleep, Bush Baby Sleep" - Julie AnthonyJulie Anthony (Australian singer)Julie Moncrief Lush OBE AM , better known as Julie Anthony, is an Australian entertainer. She sang the Australian National Anthem at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Human Nature....
External links
- Blinky Bill : The Mischievous Koala at the National Film and Sound Archive
- Blinky Bill at Screen Australia
- Blinky Bill ; songs from the movie at Music Australia