Tag: NFB

The Great Toy Robbery

In 1963, Santa Claus took a wrong turn in the Albuquerque desert and got held up in "The Great Toy Robbery" as presented by The National Film Board of Canada.

Sunday by Patrick Doyon is Oscar bound this Sunday. This animated short is a love letter to children’s imagination. After church, a family gathers at grandma and grandpa’s. It’s a Sunday like any other, except for the factory closing that has the grown-ups worried. As usual, a young boy chases away his boredom by playing […]

Sensology by Michel Gagné

You don’t have to work for the NFB to create NFB like videos. Michel Gagné artist extraordinaire has taken his animation to a whole new level. Stripped down to the bare essentials. The lines beat to a rhythm of their own. Animation has always been about the marriage of sound and drawings. Michel has managed […]

What on Earth

http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/flash/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf Great little animation from 1966 by Les Drew & Kaj Pindal from the National Film Board of Canada. This animated short proposes what many earthlings have long feared – that the automobile has inherited the planet. When life on Earth is portrayed as one long, unending conga-line of cars, a crew of extra-terrestrial visitors […]