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  • 1971
    Des ensembles

    Des ensembles

    Des ensembles

    01971HD

    A play on the colour, form and movement of two simple figures: a flower and a star. The effect is gay and lively, a constant surprise, but the movemen...

    Des ensembles
  • 1970
    La ville

    La ville

    La ville

    01970HD

    A song of disenchantment with the city, yet an acknowledgement of it as a many-faceted place of dreams. Words and music by Jean-Pierre Ferland and Fra...

    La ville
  • 1969
    Notre jeunesse en auto-sport

    Notre jeunesse en auto-sport

    Notre jeunesse en auto-sport

    01969HD

    In this film a car engine is animated with the pulse and passion of wheeled competition and of love. In French with English titles at head.

    Notre jeunesse en auto-sport
  • 1969
    Fields of Space

    Fields of Space

    Fields of Space

    01969HD

    A revelation of the distant universe, accomplishing through film animation what even the most far-seeing telescope cannot do. The film explores the fo...

    Fields of Space
  • 1968
    Carrousel

    Carrousel

    Carrousel

    01968HD

    A visual poem, vivid, lyrical, as intriguing in its colour fantasy as in the beauty of its images. This is an escape from a merry-go-round of painted...

    Carrousel
  • 1966
    A Tale of Mail

    A Tale of Mail

    A Tale of Mail

    01966HD

    An animated colour film in which the artist has free rein to show how he thinks letters got from one place to another in the early days of Canadian tr...

    A Tale of Mail
  • 1954
    Riches of the Earth

    Riches of the Earth

    Riches of the Earth

    01954HD

    Colourful animation depicts the formation, through geological ages, by fire and water, wind and ice, of the Earth's crust which holds our wealth of mi...

    Riches of the Earth
  • 1965
    Food

    Food

    Food

    01965HD

    An animated film, without commentary, produced by a guest filmmaker from India, Gopal K. Gokhale, during a period of workstudy at the National Film Bo...

    Food
  • 1958
    The Story of Cinderella

    The Story of Cinderella

    The Story of Cinderella

    01958HD

    Cinderella, as seen and interpreted in watercolour and crayon drawings by fifth-grade school children. Given a free hand, the children have developed...

    The Story of Cinderella
  • 1955
    Huff and Puff

    Huff and Puff

    Huff and Puff

    01955HD

    Huff and Puff is a comic animated look at the serious problem of hyperventilation. Produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force to inform air crews about...

    Huff and Puff
  • 2025
    Oscar Thiffault

    Oscar Thiffault

    Oscar Thiffault

    02025HD

    A documentary about the folk country musician Oscar Thiffault, the famous songwriter of Le Rapide blanc.

    Oscar Thiffault
  • 2025
    Le roi du drum

    Le roi du drum

    Le roi du drum

    02025HD

    Guy Nadon is the rhythm incarnate. A jazz drummer who strikes on everything that makes noise. A king of musical improvisation, but also a king of impr...

    Le roi du drum
  • 2002
    Sea and Stars

    Sea and Stars

    Sea and Stars

    02002HD

    Life of an ordinary fisherman changes when a young mai-mai fish sees him and falls in love!... Set to original music by composer Gavin Bryars, the fil...

    Sea and Stars
  • 1983
    Journey Through Time: The Human Story

    Journey Through Time: The Human Story

    Journey Through Time: The Human Story

    01983HD

    Where do we come from? In a dazzling sprint through twenty million years, this animated short evokes the great episodes that led to the birth of man.

    Journey Through Time: The Human Story
  • 1970
    What is Life?

    What is Life?

    What is Life?

    01970HD

    A BAFTA award nominated animation showing what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically...

    What is Life?
  • 2004
    Walking Catfish Blues

    Walking Catfish Blues

    Walking Catfish Blues

    02004HD

    No matter what else happens, if you’ve got it in you, you’ll do what you’ve got to do. That’s the spirit of the blues, and that’s the beauty of the b...

    Walking Catfish Blues
  • 1968
    Continental Drift

    Continental Drift

    Continental Drift

    01968HD

    A BAFTA award nominated animated documentary postulating that the Earth's land areas might actually be fluid (when it comes to movement).

    Continental Drift
  • 1967
    Isotopes in Action

    Isotopes in Action

    Isotopes in Action

    01967HD

    A BAFTA award nominated documentary exploring what isotopes are and what they can do.

    Isotopes in Action
  • 1966
    Energy and Matter

    Energy and Matter

    Energy and Matter

    01966HD

    A BAFTA award winning documentary demonstrating what energy is, revealing the relationship between the various forms of energy and matter.

    Energy and Matter
  • 1985
    Comet

    Comet

    Comet

    01985HD

    Throughout history, comets have stirred the human imagination. This information-packed, science animation film describes the general phenomenon of com...

    Comet