NFB Education has teamed up with Kayak, Canada’s History Magazine for kids, to put together a wide-ranging playlist of hilarious NFB shorts. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Canada Vignettes: New Canada Meltdown Sleeping Betty The Cat Came Back Runaway Opening Speech: McLaren The Great Toy Robbery Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales Getting Started
NFB Education has teamed up with Kayak, Canada’s History Magazine for kids, to put together a wide-ranging playlist of hilarious NFB shorts.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
Canada Vignettes: New Canada
Meltdown
Sleeping Betty
The Cat Came Back
Runaway
Opening Speech: McLaren
The Great Toy Robbery
Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales
Getting Started
In this short film from the Canada Vignettes series, historical events are depicted through simulated 1878 news broadcasts.
In this short animation, a polar bear must try his luck finding a job in the big city when the last of his Arctic ice environment disappears. It’s hard fitting into the human world, however, so this bear finds a more creative solution to his predicament.
In this animated short, Sleeping Betty is stuck in bed, victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. The King calls on his subjects to rescue her and they all respond to the call: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an oddly emotional alien, a funky witch and a handsome prince. But will a kiss really be enough to wake the sleeping princess? The film, drawn in ink, is a classic example of the anachronistic and playful world of Claude Cloutier.
This hilarious animated short is based on the century-old folk song of the same name. Old Mr. Johnson makes increasingly manic attempts to rid himself of a little yellow cat that just won't stay away...
Cordell Barker, director of the Oscar®-nominated films The Cat Came Back , Strange Invaders, is back with Runaway. Set to the rousing music of Ben Charest (Triplets of Belleville), this animated short takes you on a journey that is both funny and disastrous.
In this short film, Norman McLaren is literally caught by his own film tricks. As he attempts to welcome an audience, he is frustrated by an animated microphone with a will of its own.
This short animation stars the world's most-wanted good guy: Santa Claus. In this spoof of the Wild West, good triumphs over evil, but not before the evil robbers and their innocent victims have romped through some odd situations.
A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its construction to its capture by the French.
This hilarious short animated film stars a man who procrastinates. Our hero attempts to practice a piece of music on the piano, but distractions get in the way. When he finally sits down to play, pandemonium breaks loose.