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**Blinded by Light** a film by Simon Pummell

[Simon Pummell](https://simonpummell.com)

2000, 7 min 20 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/14546930)

![Blinded by Light, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blindedbylight03.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

Vision on again as the eyes have it after doing time in the dark. A post-operative sight recorder voices the hope, scores the fear. Taking things at face value. It looks like it might just work.

### one sentence synopsis

A man blind from birth gains his sight at fifty.

### short synopsis

A man blind from birth gains his sight at fifty. This is the story of his struggle to learn to see.

The film is a dramatic monologue with special effects to take us into the world of the newly sighted man.

### key credits

**director**
Simon Pummell

**blind man**
Richard Earthy

**editor**
Lee Sutton

**sound designer**
Larry Sider

### Simon Pummell

### a film by Simon Pummell

### direction

**director**
Simon Pummell

### cast in picture

**blind man**
Richard Earthy

### live-action personnel

**makeup designer**
Suzi Zamit

### image personnel

**editor**
Lee Sutton

### sound personnel

**sound designer**
Larry Sider

© Simon Pummell 2000

[![Blinded by Light, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blindedbylight01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/blindedbylight01.jpg)

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[![Blinded by Light, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blindedbylight02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/blindedbylight02.jpg)

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[![Blinded by Light, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blindedbylight03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/blindedbylight03.jpg)

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[![Blinded by Light, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blindedbylight04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/blindedbylight04.jpg)

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### technical

#### process summary

Shot on DV, edited on Avid, output to DigiBeta.

### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Blinded by Light** film, stills and other materials © Simon Pummell 2000