The National Film Board of Canada A Golden Anniversary Commemorative Collection Fifty Film representing 50 years of film making excellence. VOLUME 1 Disc 1 - GOLDEN OLDIES - 85 minutes OPENING SPEECH - The late animation genius, Norman McLaren, gives his own inimitable welcome - 7 minutes HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO - A craft as old as time demonstrated by the present day Inuit - 10 minutes PAUL TOMKOWICZ: STREET-RAILWAY SWITCHMAN - A touch of humanity filters through a seemingly drudgerous existence - 10 minutes KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT - A World War II warning - 3 minutes WINDBREAK ON THE PRAIRIES - Even in 1942 conservation and the environment were important issues - 18 minutes CHURCHILLS ISLAND - The first Oscar ever given to a documentary and to the NFB was given to this Lone Greene-narrated W.W.II film - 21 minutes GENTLEMAN JEKYLL AND DRIVEN HYDE - Even 40 years ago safe driving was an issue - 9 minutes FOUR SONGS BY FOUR GENTLEMEN - A vintage sing-a-long film - 7 minutes VOLUME 1 Disc 2 - ANIMATION: A TOUCH OF FANTASY- 95 minutes THE CAT CAME BACK - Old Mr. Johnson had one tiny problem - a cat who would never take no for an answer - 8 minutes SPECIAL DELIVERY - A postmans lament and a touch of lunacy - 7 minutes THE SAND CASTLE - A band of unusual creatures with unique talents work together towards a common goal - 13 minutes THE ROMANCE OF TRANSPORTATION CANADA - From Voyageurs to rush hours - 13 minutes BEGONE DULL CARE - Norman McLarens experimental masterpiece - 8 minutes EVOLUTION - Darwin would have approved the theory if not the treatment - 10 minutes WHAT ON EARTH - if aliens viewed us from space what would they thing? - 10 minutes COSMIC ZOOM - Only animation lets us travel out to infinite space and into the building blocks of matter in less than 10 min. - 8 minutes BOGGIE DOODLE - A jazzy McLaren classic - 10 minutes STREET MUDIQUE - A fantasy on a number of musical themes - 8 minutes VOLUME 1 - Disc 3 - ANIMATION: REFLECTIONS - 89 minutes NEIGHBOURS - Two good friends fight to the death over a flower they both must possess - 8 minutes GEORGE AND ROSEMARY - An eternal love story - told with a twist - 9 minutes UNIVERSE - Before rockets took cameras to our solar system and computers enhanced their pictures, this film, based on scientific information, was the view we had of our universe - 28 minutes THE BIG SNIT - Which is more important, parlor games or the end of the world? - 10 minutes THE STREET - A young boys grandmother is dying - the effect on his family, on him and the world - 10 minutes WALKING - Every way that everyone walks - 5 minutes EVERY CHILD - Hes cute, hes adorable, but no one really seems to want him - 6 minutes WHY ME - Nesbitt Spoon has only a few minutes to live ...and then... - 9 minutes BEAD GAME - A somber view of the world using beads as the animators tool - 6 minutes VOLUME 1 Disc 4 - CHILDRENS CHOICE - 89 minutes THE DINGLES - A charming lady and her 3 cats help each other to survive a windstorm and enjoy an afternoon - 8 minutes PADDLE TO THE SEA - Bill Masons classic film of a toy canoe that travels from Northwest Ontario through the rivers and lakes to the Atlantic - 28 minutes A CHAIRY TALE - The chair just wont let his sit on it. What must he do to convince the chair to be a chair? - 10 minutes BLACKBERRY SUBWAY JAM - If youre a little boy and you have enough Blackberry jam you CAN fight City Hall - 8 minutes LADY FISHBOURNES COMPLETE GUIDE TO TABLE MANNERS - What to do - actually what NOT to do - at the dinner table - 6 minutes THE SWEATER - Its not the sweater you wear, its whats inside that counts - 10 minutes TCHOU- TCHOU - Even a frightening dragon can be tamed - 14 minutes
