Status: Released
Released Date: 1978-01-01
Runtime: 1 mins
Director: Paul Bochner
Spoken language: No Language
Genres: Animation
Original title: Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Production Companies: ONF | NFB
Production Countries: Canada
Cast
Canada Vignettes
Canada Vignettes: December Lights
1979-01-01
Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas
Canada Vignettes: The Horse
1978-01-01
The story of the impact that the introduction of the horse had on the North American West.
Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds
1980-01-01
This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aeroba
Canada Vignettes: News Canada
1978-01-01
Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada
1985-01-01
This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.
Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic
1978-01-01
An animated vignette about the role of Thomas Spence in the formation and demise of the Republic of
Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz
1979-06-01
A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her bo
Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson
1978-01-01
A humorous account of the pioneering journey of Lady Frances Simpson, along with her piano, from Eng
Canada Vignettes: Holidays
1978-01-01
A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.
Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
1978-01-01
An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.
Canada Vignettes: Trees
1978-01-01
Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal cha
Canada Vignettes: Countdown
1981-01-01
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by th
Canada Vignettes: Alouette
1979-01-01
A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.
Canada Vignettes: Ice
1982-01-01
Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.
Canada Vignettes: Calliope
1980-01-01
A vignette on the travelling calliope (also known as steam organ), a musical instrument that produce
Canada Vignettes: Moccasins
1979-01-01
Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric d
Canada Vignettes: Dance
1979-01-01
The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm
Canada Vignettes: Logger
1978-01-01
The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.
Canada Vignettes: Faces
1978-01-01
Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
1978-01-01
An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.
Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland
1978-01-01
An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.
Canada Vignettes: Skier
1978-01-01
In this short vignette, skier Kathy Kreiner prepares for and participates in her Olympic gold-medal
Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion
1979-01-01
A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colom
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
1978-01-01
Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts h
Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge
1978-01-01
This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.
Canada Vignettes: Port Royal
1978-01-01
This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an
Canada Vignettes: Trading Post
1978-01-01
An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and I
Canada Vignettes: Instant French
1979-01-01
This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
1979-01-01
An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tun
Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls
1980-01-01
An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music
Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold
1980-01-01
This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy ci
Canada Vignettes: Arctic Mission
1980-01-01
A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean.
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
1979-01-01
This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon
1978-01-01
This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
1977-01-01
A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in
Canada Vignettes: The Egg
1979-01-01
An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette s
Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape
1980-01-01
A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe
1979-01-01
This carved ritual pipe from the Plains First Nations culture depicts the act of creation, alive in
Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat
1979-01-01
The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
1978-01-01
Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film dep
Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe
1979-01-01
In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, th
Canada Vignettes: Unity Pole
1979-01-01
This vignette shows the ceremonial totem-pole raising by the Nisgha Nation at Ayanish.
Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane
1979-01-01
This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gl
Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud
1985-01-01
A vignette using animation and live action to depict mussel farmers digging in the mud through the i
Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946
1979-01-01
A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
1978-04-14
This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to
Canada Vignettes: The Move
1985-01-01
In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved a
Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters
1978-09-22
A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.
Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers
1984-01-01
A "cat and dog fight" film that also reminds us to keep emergency numbers close to our telephones.
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
1978-01-01
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourn
Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973
1979-06-01
One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring o
Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1
1979-06-01
One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring o
Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille
1978-06-01
A short history of one of the traditional dances of Acadia--the quadrille.
Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death
1980-01-01
A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention t
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
1978-01-01
The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships b
Canada Vignettes: The Performer
1978-01-01
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian na
Canada Vignettes: McIntosh
1979-06-01
A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.
Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian
1980-01-01
W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of h
Canada Vignettes: Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton
1978-01-01
This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with trad
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
1979-01-01
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted
Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels
1979-03-20
This short fiction film tells the love story between a young anglophone and a young francophone who
Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
1978-01-01
There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours
Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales
1978-01-01
A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its
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