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For the New Zealand town, see Tikitiki. 1971 Canadian film
Tiki Tiki
Directed byGerald Potterton
Written byJerome Chodorov
Donald Brittain
Gerald Potterton
Produced byGerald Potterton
StarringBarry Baldaro
Gayle Claitman
Patrick Conlon
Peter Cullen
Jean Shepherd
Joan Stuart
Ted Zeigler
CinematographyGennadi Tsekavyj
Viktor Yakushev
Edited byPeter Hearn
Music byJerry Blatt
L. Burnstein
Production
company		Potterton Productions
Release date
  • September 25, 1971 (1971-09-25)
Running time71 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Tiki Tiki is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Gerald Potterton and released in 1971. Created by intercutting animated sequences with live-action footage from the Russian children's film Aybolit-66, the animated sequences tell the story of a group of monkeys who are working to produce a film, while the Aybolit-66 footage represents the film they are making. The film was inspired in part by Woody Allen's 1966 film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, which used original dialogue to recontextualize a foreign-language film.

The film's voice cast included Barry Baldaro, Gayle Claitman, Patrick Conlon, Peter Cullen, Jean Shepherd, Joan Stuart and Ted Zeigler.

During the film's promotion, Potterton acknowledged that it was a challenging film to market, as his production company wasn't sure whether to aim it at "kids or stoned teenagers or whatever", and has referred to the finished product as "a cross between a whacked out animated version of Easy Rider and the Olsen and Johnson musical Hellzapoppin'".

Aleksandr Kuznetsov, the production designer of Aybolit-66, was named the winner of the Canadian Film Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 23rd Canadian Film Awards.

In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that Tiki Tiki was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films.

References

  1. ^ "Tiki-Tiki a complicated delight". Montreal Gazette, December 30, 1972.
  2. ^ Rob Craig, American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland & Company, 2019. ISBN 9781476635224. p. 373.
  3. "That empty feeling just means Potterton has been a busy man". Montreal Gazette, January 8, 1973.
  4. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 93-95.
  5. Pat Mullen, "Oscar Winning Doc Leads List of Restored Canadian Classics". Point of View, May 9, 2023.

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