Animation night in Canada. Volume 1

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Long celebrated for its groundbreaking achievements in animation, the National Film Board of Canada has earned international acclaim and dozens of Oscar® nominations for its animated shorts. During a particularly fertile period between 1965 and 1985, the NFB played an instrumental role in the medium's rapid evolution, breaking new ground with a wildly varied and inventive run of films that are alternately abstract, eerie, entertaining, poetic, po...

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Description:

1 videodisc (137 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
full screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Animation night in Canada. Set 1

Notes:

Title from container
Canadiana
Guy Clover, Donald Brittain, Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren, E.B. White, Paul Cormier, Mort Ransen, Sarah Dwight, John Hood
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen format (1.33:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural
For private home use only
Audio track in English, French, captions in English
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

Contents:

The drag / Carlos Marchiori (1965, 9 min.)
What on Earth! / Les Drew and Kaj Pindal (1966, 10 min.)
The house that Jack built / Ron Tunis (1967, 8 min.)
Pas de deux / Norman McLaren (1968, 13 min.)
Walking / Ryan Larkin (1968, 5 min.)
Evolution / Michael Mills (1971, 10 min.)
The family that dwelt apart / Yvon Mallette (1973, 8 min.)
Monsieur Pointu / Bernard Longpré and André Leduc (1975, 13 min.)
The street / Caroline Leaf (1976, 10 min.)
The bead game / Ishu Patel (1977, 5 min.)
The sand castle / Co Hoedeman (1977, 13 min.)
Special delivery / Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon (1978, 7 min.)
Paradise / Ishu Patel (1984, 15 min.)
The big snit / Richard Condie (1985, 10 min.)

Control Number:

3313047

UPC:

814456029238

Other Authors:

Brittain, Donald, voice actor
Canadian International Pictures, film distributor
Clover, Guy, voice actor
Cormier, Paul, voice actor
Dwight, Sarah, voice actor
Hood, John, voice actor
Mercier, Margaret, voice actor
National Film Board of Canada, production company
Ransen, Mort, voice actor
Warren, Vincent, voice actor

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