OT: Happy Canada's Day

[Bugsy-Kun]

Just a Happy Birthday to some canadian GAC members like tristar, Larry T, MF Toon and myself. :)

Hope only they could released on DVD some very good NFB and Norman McClraen shorts made during the Golden Age of Animation but i think they lost forever.

[The "Chase"]

Well, I know how to celbrate... :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA&feature=related

[Geezil]

I've been strongly advised by my Canadian relatives to put a tick-a-lock on any Bob & Doug McKenzie jokes in this thread.

Have a great one, Canada! :D

[cpdavison]

I've lost track... is this the same as Dominion Day, Victoria Day and Regina Day?

Here's to you folks who are north of the 48th Parallel!

Craig D.

[Duck Dodgers]

Well hope Canadian friends Larry and Mawrtin will celebrate watching Famous Studios cartoons.
And for one day, you US citizens, don't "Blame Canada!":D

[Daffysleftfoot]

I've been strongly advised by my Canadian relatives to put a tick-a-lock on any Bob & Doug McKenzie jokes in this thread.


What do they think of a link to one of their sketches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJI1G-DB_0).

Happy 141, Canada!

[Matt the Y]

Don't forget l'il ol' me! I hail from Truro, Nova Scotia!

And, yes, I'm certainly remembering Canada's birthday today as a fellow Canadian myself! As an animation-related sidenote, how many Canadian-themed (classic) cartoons are there? Off the top of my head, I know of.....

Snow Man's Land (WB/1939)
Fresh Hare (WB/1942)
Northwest Hounded Police (MGM/1946)
Yukon Have It (Lantz/1959)
Canadian Can-Can (DFE/1967)
The Shooting of Caribou Lou (DFE/1967)
Sweet and Sourdough (DFE/1969)

[Duck Dodgers]

"Northwest Mousie"

[Fibber Fox]

I've lost track... is this the same as Dominion Day, Victoria Day and Regina Day?

It's only Dominion Day to geezers like me. Canada's not been a dominion since the Constitution was repatriated, so it's not called Dominion Day now.

Victoria Day is the long weekend in May, generally the week before the U.S Memorial Day.

Is Regina Day in adult movies?

F. Fox
Vancouver

P.S. No one has mentioned Dudley Do Right yet. You can have Celine Dion.

[Gordan]

Happy birthday to us from Ottawa! :bosko:

[Pieless]

Happy Canada day, from someone who has lived in Alabama all his life, with a Canadian flag to the left of him who dreams of living in BC one day. :)


Hope only they could released on DVD some very good NFB and Norman McClraen shorts made during the Golden Age of Animation but i think they lost forever.

If by "lost forever" you mean "someone collected every film, test, and outtake of his they could find and put them on one set" (http://www.amazon.com/Norman-McLaren-Masters-Grant-Munro/dp/B000H7J9OY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214940729&sr=1-1), then yeah, you'd be correct. ;) I was skeptical about the set at first, cause I had only seen Blinkity Blank, Neighbours, and Le Merle on youtube, and while they were all great, I didn't know if it was a set worth shelling out 60+$ for. I got it anyway, and watched it chronologically. By the time I had reached the 40's I was already thinking he was basically a genius. By the time I watched Pas De Deux, he had become one of my favorite filmmakers period.

While I'm at it, some more Canadian/NFB short collections available on DVD to celebrate this day.

Ryan (http://www.amazon.com/Ryan-Special-Chris-Landreth/dp/B0009YA41C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214941036&sr=1-3), which has every Ryan Larkin film but the one minute Cityscape, and every Chris Landreth film to boot.

The Man Who Planted Trees Box Set (http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-DVD/dp/B0006UF7NY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214941241&sr=1-2), which contains every film of Frederic Back. The first four or five of his shorts are pure children's films though, and are really ugly in my opinion. Fortunately, after Illusion, everything picks up.

Pierre Hebert's The Science of Moving Images (http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/pierre-hebert/dvd-collection-memoire.php?lg=en), which contains all of his films. Don't have this one yet myself, but I've read that he was the closest to McLaren of any of the later NFB animators, so that's enough for me.

From Book to Film: Animated Classics by Sheldon Cohen (http://www2.nfb.ca/boutique/XXNFBibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?a=b&formatid=51516&support=DVD), which contains every Sheldon Cohen film. Again, haven't seen any of his works


And finally, I'm sure many of you have been here, but you can find 70 great NFB shorts here. (http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/index.php) You can find shorts by McLaren, Hebert, and Cohen here. All this just makes me wish I appreciated O, Canada when Cartoon Network was still showing it.

[absolutpaul]

I shall be spending the day drinking Canadian beer! It doesn't get any better than that!

[Bugsy-Kun]

Thank you pieless for this many informations about OUR own works. I'm glad Internet can keep alive this works. And i know about the Frederick Back's works on DVD, it was made with CBC/Radio-Canada collaboration.

[Bugsmer]

Happy Canada Day, everybody! And a happy July 4th to our American friends.

[Studio Toledo]

Well, I know how to celbrate... :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA&feature=related
That's nothing, check out THIS! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVDqJ7o8LE)

[Studio Toledo]

If by "lost forever" you mean "someone collected every film, test, and outtake of his they could find and put them on one set" (http://www.amazon.com/Norman-McLaren-Masters-Grant-Munro/dp/B000H7J9OY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214940729&sr=1-1), then yeah, you'd be correct. ;) I was skeptical about the set at first, cause I had only seen Blinkity Blank, Neighbours, and Le Merle on youtube, and while they were all great, I didn't know if it was a set worth shelling out 60+$ for. I got it anyway, and watched it chronologically. By the time I had reached the 40's I was already thinking he was basically a genius. By the time I watched Pas De Deux, he had become one of my favorite filmmakers period.
At least there's that! I found one of the NFB's 'cut-paper' sing-a-long films from the 40's on 16mm I bothered to find on eBay a while back.

The Man Who Planted Trees Box Set (http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-DVD/dp/B0006UF7NY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214941241&sr=1-2), which contains every film of Frederic Back. The first four or five of his shorts are pure children's films though, and are really ugly in my opinion. Fortunately, after Illusion, everything picks up.
I still get teary-eyed with Crac and Man Who Planted Trees.

From Book to Film: Animated Classics by Sheldon Cohen (http://www2.nfb.ca/boutique/XXNFBibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?a=b&formatid=51516&support=DVD), which contains every Sheldon Cohen film. Again, haven't seen any of his works
I've seen The Sweater!

And finally, I'm sure many of you have been here, but you can find 70 great NFB shorts here. (http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/index.php) You can find shorts by McLaren, Hebert, and Cohen here. All this just makes me wish I appreciated O, Canada when Cartoon Network was still showing it.
Though they only played one of McLaren's on there (Begone Dull Care, lord knows the type of calls they'd get over "Neighbours"), I personally didn't care for the "O Canada" airings myself due to the slight editing on some shorts for content (like a sister mentioning orgasms in "The Street" or Bob's nudity in Bob's Birthday), you're better off hunting down the classics at the public library!

[Studio Toledo]

Thank you pieless for this many informations about OUR own works. I'm glad Internet can keep alive this works. And i know about the Frederick Back's works on DVD, it was made with CBC/Radio-Canada collaboration.
At at time when SRC had this thing for wanting to produce original animated pieces they could easily get into film fests such as with Back was doing in the 70's. I don't assume the CBC cares much for that sort of thing nowadays from what I've seen of it.

[Studio Toledo]

Happy Canada Day, everybody! And a happy July 4th to our American friends.
And if you're in the Detroit-Windsor area, there's the "International Freedom Festival" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor-Detroit_International_Freedom_Festival)!