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charles2001
a month ago
Norman McLaren founded the NFB's animation unit in 1942, and had George Dunning, René Jodoin, Wolf Koenig, Jean-Paul Ladouceur, Evelyn Lambart, Colin Low, Grant Munro, and Robert Verrall working there within a decade of its creation. Jodoin organised the NFB's French animated studio in 1966

During Derek Lamb's leadership of the English animation studio produced multiple critical acclaimed works, including the Academy Award-winning Every Child. Lamb resigned in 1982, and was replaced by Doug McDonald, whose tenure was criticized by animators such as David Fine's statement that "Norman McLaren would be turning in his grave if he knew how the place was being run".


charles2001
a month ago
"The Three Blind Mice" An animated safety film adapts the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into a song where the mice are factory workers who disregard safety rules and wind up injuring themselves. it was directed by George Dunning (Yellow Submarine)

charles2001
a month ago
''Oh Sure" The very short animation by Richard Condie is a lesson in how to make a fool of oneself easily and effectively. Two gentlemen are involved: one who wishes to read his newspaper and another who insists on performing acrobatic feats. Although the outcome is surprising, the message is clear: going to great lengths to impress one's neighbor is futile.

charles2001
a month ago
''Blowhard'' An animated parable that deals with a familiar subject in an amusing way. We join in the business ventures of J.B. Edwards, an easterner who went west to create a fuel company called Consolidated Dragons. The company's profits were sorely affected when the supply of dragons started to dry up. A solution had to be found--and was.

It was Directed by Brad Caslor & Christopher Hinton.

charles2001
a month ago
"The Persistent Peddler" was Featuring a salesman and a consumer, this animated short is a humorous study of the patterns that define buyer-seller relationships. The Persistent Peddler is based on Claude Cloutier's hit comic strip La Légende des Jean-Guy, first introduced in Quebec humour magazine Croc.

it was Directed by Claude Cloutier.

charles2001
a month ago
Philip Ragan's Buying Fever

A victory loan film urging people not to sell their Victory Bonds. The Plugger family happily dreams of the day after the war when they will be able to make dreams come true with the money from their bonds. But the temptation to cash them in immediately to buy luxury goods is strong. The Pluggers, however, overcome temptation, and are once more on the road to victory.

charles2001
a month ago
Spook Sport
An expressionistic interpretation of 'Danse macabre' by Camille Saint-Saëns. Conventional cel animation and pen drawings were done by Norman McLaren directly on 35 mm film stock.

charles2001
a month ago
" Overdose" it's a About the Kid With school, tennis lessons, swimming lessons, art classes, homework and piano practice, a young boy leads such a regimented life that he has no more time just to be a kid.

it was Directed by Claude Cloutier in 1994

charles2001
a month ago
Wowza! This wacky Oscar®-nominated animated short reveals the classic tale of temptation in a wonderfully weird way. In a room full of wind-up toys, our hero sets a chain of events into motion that ends up disturbing both his own, and the viewer's, sense of reality.

La Salla
Directed by Richard Condie - 1996 | 8 min

charles2001
a month ago
Who Are We?

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists, adaptable to whatever climate or history place in their way. It is a boisterous, bubbling analysis of the Canadian character and, although it may not answer the question of the title, it does leave the feeling that being Canadian is not so exhausting as one might expect.


fulano7
a month ago
From NFB, this one marked my childhood, it aired on TV (in PBS quivalents):

I always come to TTTP in Exile in the hope of finding news about Warner announcing Tex Avery Collection.
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charles2001
a month ago
A clip in the Science Please. collection, The Wonderful World of Colour uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the cones of the retina enable us to perceive the spectrum of colours.

charles2001
a month ago
At Home with Mrs. Hen
This animated short is a comical tale that pokes fun at motherhood. It depicts the temper tantrums of a child and the efforts a mother makes to set her son on the right path. You don’t need to be a chicken to relate.

charles2001
a month ago
Stars and Stripes

An abstract animation by Norman McLaren, who was born in Scotland in 1914. His interest in filmmaking began early in life after he became acquainted with works by the great Russian filmmakers Eisenstein and Pudovkin and the German animator Oskar Fischinger.

charles2001
a month ago
Science Please! : Fire
What lights your fire? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

charles2001
a month ago
Science Please! : Why Is the Sky Blue?
Why isn't it green, yellow or striped? For ages 5 - 8.

Directed by Sylvain Charbonneau - 2001

charles2001
a month ago
Diane Obomsawin's Understanding the Law

charles2001
a month ago
An animated vignette on the journey of Lady Frances Simpson, with her piano, from England to Lower Fort Garry.

charles2001
a month ago
In "The Internal Combustion Engine" from the National Film Board of Canada’s Science Please!
the plot follows an educational journey that demystifies how a car engine functions. The narrative is structured as follows: The film begins by humorously listing the parts of a car, including wheels, seats, fuzzy dice, the body, and most importantly, the internal combustion engine.

charles2001
a month ago
Science Please! : Magnets

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Magnets uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain: North Pole, South Pole... what's the big attraction? For ages 5 - 8.

Directed by Sylvain Charbonneau - 2000

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