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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
Canada Vignettes: Toronto (Canada, 1978 • 1min)
Director: Carlos Marchiori • Producer: Judy LeGros
An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
Blackberry Subway Jam (Canada, 1984 • 8min)
Director: Robert Doucet • Producer: Eunice Macaulay
This animated version of the popular children's story by Robert Munsch is about a young boy with a major problem: his apartment has become a subway station but his mother doesn't believe him and blames him for the commuters' mess. Jonathan takes his problem to City Hall and gets his first look at what bureaucratic bungling is all about. Munsch's story is entitled Jonathan Cleaned Up--Then He Heard a Sound.
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
One Little Indian (Canada, 1954 • 16min)
Director: Grant Munro • Producers: Colin Low, Tom Daly
A puppet film that wraps up some traffic safety rules in an absorbing story about a little Indian boy who pays his first visit to a big city. Even though Magic Bow is endowed with magic gifts and thrills the rodeo audience with his act, the whirl of traffic outside the arena leaves him completely bewildered. From kindly city folk he learns some basic safety precautions.
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Academy® Awards |
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
Neighbours/Voisins (Canada, 1952 • 8min)
Director: Norman McLaren • Producer: Norman McLaren
In the wordless stop-animated film Neighbours/Voisins, two good friends come to blows over a flower they both must possess. One of Norman McLaren's many Oscar®-winning films for the National Film Board.(May not be suitable for very young children.)
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
Montréal By Night (Canada, 1947 • 11min)
Directors: Jean Palardy, Arthur Burrows • Producer: Sydney Newman
Montréal, on a summer's night, presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds. The Indian village of three hundred years ago is now North America's second port and, after Paris, the world's largest French-speaking city. Its historic and religious shrines, its elevators and warehouses, the offices, homes and clubs of its merchant princes, its glittering night-spots and amusement parks, its streets with their outside corkscrew stairways — are all seen as the bright background to the happiness of boy and girl.
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Genie® Awards
Cannes International Film Festival
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
When The Day Breaks (Canada, 1999 • 9min)
Directors: Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis • Producer: David Verrall
When the Day Breaks is the charming, bittersweet story of Ruby, the pig, whose life takes an unexpected turn after she witnesses the accidental death of a stranger. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, the film illuminates the links which connect our urban lives, while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day. The film, described as a four-year labour of love by the filmmakers, is exquisitely crafted, using pencil and paint on photocopies which gives it a textured look reminiscent of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel. In When the Day Breaks, the ordinary - a lemon, a toaster, a chance collision on a street corner - is endowed with a visceral power.
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August 24 Fall Season Launch Party
8pm • Bellevue Square Park • FREE
Canada Vignettes: The Log-Driver's Waltz (Canada, 1979 • 3min)
Director: John Weldon • Producer: David Verrall
A young girl who loves to dance and is ready to marry chooses a log driver over his more well-to-do, land-loving competition. Driving logs down the river has made him the best dancing partner to be found. This lighthearted, animated tale is based on the song The Log Driver's Waltz by Wade Hemsworth. Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing to the music of the Mountain City Four.
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