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: Not Rated
: Image Entertainment
: Foreign, Animation, Cel, Shorts, Canada
: 95 min.
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Movie historian Leonard Maltin hosts this collection of nine animated short films. Included in this collection is Norman McLaren's Begone Dull Care, Jacques Drouin's Mindscape, John Weldon's The Log Driver's Waltz, Cordell Barker's The Cat Came Back, Richard Condie's Getting Started, Sheldon Cohen's The Sweater, Caroline Leaf's The Street, Norman McLaren's Pas De Deux, and Marc Aubry & Michel Herbert's Anniversary. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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| A good mix of animation....
by RFranklin
October 28, 2004 - 3:03 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| My 16 year old daughter and I watched this together. Some of the animations are really funny. We loved "The Cat Came Back" it was great! I liked "The Sweater" which is about the humiliation of being a kid who wants to be like everyone else, but his mother is uncooperative. We can all relate to that! Most of the other animations weren't written to be funny. Quite a few drama cartoons and a few artistic animations. The last one is one of the first computer generated animations. |
| Quite fine cross-section of Canadian animation
by BCavanagh
February 14, 2004 - 10:20 AM PST
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5 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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| If you haven't seen some of these animations before, you'll be amazed. Scratching and painting directly onto film and using a pinboard as a canvas, these are two innovative animation styles made famous by Canadian animators. For the Canadians in the crowd there are a few memorable hits, particularly The Cat Came Back and The Log Driver's Waltz. The only animation I didn't care for was Pas de Deux; it was more of a live-action filming effect than animation style, and it seemed to drag on (it was the only one I fast-forwarded through). The lone computer animation is dated by today's standards, but you have to remember that it came out ten years ago. Leonard Maltin provides background information that only helps to add to the allure of the shorts. All in all, a fine cross-section of animation styles produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and a collection that I recommend any fan of animation -- no, any fan of film -- watch. |
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