ANIMATION NIGHT IN CANADA VOL. 1

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 min.)
Ishu Patel’s Paradise (1984, 15 min.)
Richard Condie’s The Big Snit (1985, 10 min.)