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An active organism leaps and quivers in this bouncing one-minute vignette.
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An active organism leaps and quivers in this bouncing one-minute vignette.
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
This documentary show the work, the worries and the joys of a family dedicated to viticulture, the Potterat, living in Lavaux. Three generations live together, keeping the old traditions
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.
It is like a miracle that has occurred five times a century since 1797. The Fête des Vignerons frees the character of the Vaudois from their legendary restraint. It turns an entire region into a gigantic drunken boat. Th
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.
The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.
The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.
This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.
Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around Kenora, Ontario.