Canada Vignettes: The Performer
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.
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This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.
A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.
Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
Profile of the Haida artist Bill Reid
A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.
This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.
This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy city of Dawson, and the turmoil and triumphs of the 1898 Klondike gold rush.
This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually esta
Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.
A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.
A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.
An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.
This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.
An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.
This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.
An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.