STOP SAWING THE TABLE!!!!
In case you missed the mention on the allmighty boingboing, the NFB has put 50 different animations online from their vast archives. I am familiar with a good many of them, having in previous years attended "best of" animated short films and just happening to catch them when they were aired on CBC for whatever reason.
Among my favourites:
The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker
Blackfly by Christopher HInton
The Juke-Bar by Barry Martin
Black Soul by Martine Chartrand
The Sweater by Sheldon Cohen
and, of course,
The Big Snit by Richard Condie
As much as I enjoy the above films, I really wish the site included The Apprentice by Richard Condie. When Toast and I first saw it, we just about passed out from laughing. And we really wanted to smack those flowers.
It's when you see these amazing and beautiful or funny and weird or tragic and sad or just mesmerizing films for the first time or the tenth time, you realize what a treasure we have in the NFB.
Posted by Marmy on July 20, 2006 02:13 AM
Comments
Where's The Log Driver's Waltz? That one's a must!
Posted by: wN at July 20, 2006 11:29 AM
I was going to say the one I remember most was the Log Driver's Waltz, but wN beat me to it. My favourite, though, was "Oh, Sure." (At least I think that was what it was called.) Now that I have finally acquired a copy of (non-NFB, but Canadian anyways) "Quiet, Please!", I now need to find "Oh, Sure."
Posted by: uber at July 21, 2006 10:27 AM