It's Snow
Holiday Shorts
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5m 21s
Directed by Gayle Thomas | 5 mins | 1974
A rainbow of delicately cut-out snowflakes flash, dance, and subdivide to shimmering steel drum in this delightfully geometrical interlude by Ottawa animator Gayle Thomas.
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The Story of Christmas
Directed by Evelyn Lambart | 8 mins | 1973
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Christmas at Moose Factory
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin | 13 mins | 1971
A legendary figure in First Nations filmmaking, Alanis Obomsawin made her documentary debut with this charming, crayon-drawn portrait of a Cree community at Christmastime, as illustrated and narrated by a number of the local children. -
Christmas Cracker
Directed by Jeff Hale, Norman McLaren, Grant Munro, and Gerald Potterton | 9 mins | 1963
A kinetic, cut-out rendition of “Jingle Bells,” a stop-motion face-off between a gaggle of tin wind-up toys, and a hand-drawn quest for the perfect Christmas tree topper: collectively, an upbeat and utterly c...