Canada Vignettes: Toronto

Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer

1977

A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal. She hopes to design clothes for mass production that are beautiful, functional and affordable by everyone.

Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer

1977

6.0

Canada Vignettes: The Horse

The story of the impact that the introduction of the horse had on the North American West.

Canada Vignettes: The Horse

1978

Canada Vignettes: News Canada

Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.

Canada Vignettes: News Canada

1978

6.0

Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic

4.7

An animated vignette about the role of Thomas Spence in the formation and demise of the Republic of Manitoba at Portage la Prairie in 1867-68.

Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic

1978

4.7

Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson

A humorous account of the pioneering journey of Lady Frances Simpson, along with her piano, from England to Manitoba.

Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson

1978

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Holidays

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

Canada Vignettes: Holidays

1978

Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.

Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs

1978

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Trees

Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal changes.

Canada Vignettes: Trees

1978

6.0

Canada Vignettes: Logger

The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

Canada Vignettes: Logger

1978

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Faces

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

Canada Vignettes: Faces

1978

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland

4.8

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.

Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland

1978

4.8

Canada Vignettes: Skier

In this short vignette, skier Kathy Kreiner prepares for and participates in her Olympic gold-medal race at Innsbruck.

Canada Vignettes: Skier

1978

Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.

Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

1978

4.0

Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

1978

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually established Port Royal, the foundation of Acadia and the Acadian people.

Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

1978

4.0

Canada Vignettes: Trading Post

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

Canada Vignettes: Trading Post

1978

4.0

Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon

This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.

Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon

1978

Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

5.3

Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.

Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

1978

5.3

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

1978

Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

4.8

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

1978

4.8

Canada Vignettes: The Performer

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.

Canada Vignettes: The Performer

1978

Canada Vignettes: Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the Deeps - a miners' choral group.

Canada Vignettes: Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton

1978

Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor but crafty" hero. The story introduces the student to our rich multicultural background through the exploration of folklore of one of the peoples that make up Canada's cultural mosaic.

Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

1978

Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales

5.2

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.

Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales

1978

5.2

Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable

1978

Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille

A short history of one of the traditional dances of Acadia--the quadrille.

Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille

1978

Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters

4.3

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters

1978

4.3

Canada Vignettes: December Lights

7.0

Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas.

Canada Vignettes: December Lights

1979

7.0

Canada Vignettes: Alouette

3.0

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

Canada Vignettes: Alouette

1979

3.0

Canada Vignettes: Moccasins

4.5

Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Collection that was repatriated from Germany by the National Museum of Man in 1975.

Canada Vignettes: Moccasins

1979

4.5

Canada Vignettes: Dance

The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.

Canada Vignettes: Dance

1979

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

7.5

A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colombo.

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

1979

7.5

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

1979

6.0

Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.

Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth

1979

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Wop May

This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

Canada Vignettes: Wop May

1979

5.0

Canada Vignettes: The Egg

5.2

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, learn how societies in evolution are often in danger of self-destruction.

Canada Vignettes: The Egg

1979

5.2

Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe

This carved ritual pipe from the Plains First Nations culture depicts the act of creation, alive in stone, Mother Earth in the embrace of Father Sky. Integral to the all-important sacred ceremonies, this personal possession expresses in strong imagery the vigour and joy of life itself.

Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe

1979

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat

4.5

The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.

Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat

1979

4.5

Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play as etched in black on an ivory Inuit pipe.

Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

1979

Canada Vignettes: Unity Pole

This vignette shows the ceremonial totem-pole raising by the Nisgha Nation at Ayanish.

Canada Vignettes: Unity Pole

1979

Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.

Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane

1979

Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946

A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.

Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946

1979

Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.

Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine

1979

Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels

This short fiction film tells the love story between a young anglophone and a young francophone who unite their destinies in roller skates.

Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels

1979

Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

6.6

A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her boyfriend, the log driver.

Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

1979

6.6

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Don Messer, who has since passed away.

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

1979

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Marg Osburne, who has since passed away.

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1

1979

Canada Vignettes: McIntosh

A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.

Canada Vignettes: McIntosh

1979

Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds

This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aerobatics team at work.

Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds

1980

Canada Vignettes: Calliope

A vignette on the travelling calliope (also known as steam organ), a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam through large locomotive whistles.

Canada Vignettes: Calliope

1980

Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.

Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls

1980

Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold

This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy city of Dawson, and the turmoil and triumphs of the 1898 Klondike gold rush.

Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold

1980

Canada Vignettes: Arctic Mission

A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean.

Canada Vignettes: Arctic Mission

1980

5.0

Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape

A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean.

Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape

1980

Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death

A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention to the danger posed to public health by flies. Through archival photographs and newspaper headlines the highlights of the contest are reviewed in a light, humorous manner. The winner, a determined young lady named Beatrice White, killed over 500 000 flies during the six-week contest and was dubbed the "Angel of Death" by the paper.

Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death

1980

Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of his prairie childhood.

Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian

1980

Canada Vignettes: Countdown

1981

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

Canada Vignettes: Countdown

1981

4.0

Canada Vignettes: Ice

1982

Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.

Canada Vignettes: Ice

1982

4.0

Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers

5.5

1984

A "cat and dog fight" film that also reminds us to keep emergency numbers close to our telephones.

Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers

1984

5.5

Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada

5.5

1985

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada

1985

5.5

Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud

1985

A vignette using animation and live action to depict mussel farmers digging in the mud through the ice on bays and estuaries in Prince Edward Island.

Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud

1985

Canada Vignettes: The Move

1985

In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home after nearly a half-century of use. The film follows the lifting and transporting of the 9-storey, 200-ton structure, and examines the feelings of the people as they witness the final passing of their town's one and only grain elevator.

Canada Vignettes: The Move

1985

The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.

Where Is Anne Frank

2021

6.6

Beyond

7.3

2003

While looking for her cat, a young woman and some kids find an abandoned building where strange things happen and the rules of physics don't always apply. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

Beyond

2003

7.3

Bratz: Rock Angelz

7.3

2005

After starting up their own teen magazine, Bratz girls Yasmin, Cloe, Jade, and Sasha fly to London to cover a rock concert.

Bratz: Rock Angelz

2005

7.3

Program

6.8

2003

Cis and Duo discuss leaving the real world while during a samurai sword fight. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

Program

2003

6.8

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone

7.0

2023

GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone

2023

7.0

Ethel & Ernest

7.5

2016

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

Ethel & Ernest

2016

7.5

Mr. Incredible and Pals

5.9

2005

An animated short film produced by Pixar included as a bonus on the DVD edition of the 2004 feature film "The Incredibles."

Mr. Incredible and Pals

2005

5.9

Matriculated

6.6

2003

The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

Matriculated

2003

6.6

The Little Matchgirl

7.5

2006

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

The Little Matchgirl

2006

7.5

Blind Vaysha

7.1

2016

From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future. The past is familiar and safe, the future is sinister and threatening. The present is a blind spot. In captivating parabolic imagery, the award-winning animation artist Theodore Ushev illustrates the world through Vaysha’s eyes.

Blind Vaysha

2016

7.1

The House

7.0

2022

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

The House

2022

7.0

Far from the Tree

8.1

2021