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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, poignant, and psychedelic. An eye-opening overview of this seminal period in animated film history, Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 features 14 Oscar®-nominated classics with style and personality to spare.
Carlos Marchiori’s The Drag (1965, 9 min.)
Les Drew and Kaj Pindal’s What on Earth! (1966, 10 min.)
Ron Tunis’ The House That Jack Built (1967, 8 min.)
Norman McLaren’s Pas de deux (1968, 13 min.)
Ryan Larkin’s Walking (1968, 5 min.)
Michael Mills’ Evolution (1971, 10 min.)
Yvon Mallette’s The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973, 8 min.)
Bernard Longpré and André Leduc’s Monsieur Pointu (1975, 13 min.)
Caroline Leaf’s The Street (1976, 10 min.)
Ishu Patel’s The Bead Game (1977, 5 min.)
Co Hoedeman’s Oscar®-winning The Sand Castle (1977, 13 min.)
Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon’s Oscar®-winning Special Delivery (1978, 7 n.)
Ishu Patel’s Paradise (1984, 15 min.)
Richard Condie’s The Big Snit (1985, 10 min.)
FEATURES:
Region A Blu-ray
All films restored by the National Film Board of Canada
Eight additional shorts from the directors in this collection: Norman McLaren’s Oscar®-winning Neighbours (1952, 8 min.), Yvon Mallette’s Boomsville (1968, 10 min.), Co Hoedeman’s Matrioska (1970, 5 min.), Les Drew’s The Underground Movie (1972, 14 min.), Ishu Patel’s Perspectrum (1975, 6 min.), André Leduc’s Canada Vignettes: Instant French (1979, 1 min.), Caroline Leaf and Veronika Soul’s Interview (1979, 14 min.), and Ron Tunis’ This Is Me (1979, 27 min.)
McLaren on McLaren (1983, 8 min.) – The legendary director of Neigbours and Pas de deux reflects on his filmmaking career
Alter Egos (2004, 52 min.) – Laurence Green’s documentary about Oscar®-nominated NFB animators Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin
Booklet featuring a new interview with animator and NFB Head of Animation (1967-1972) Robert Verrall, plus additional notes on the films
English SDH subtitles
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