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Poets on Film No. 2

1977 7 min
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This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.

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Poets on Film No. 2

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This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.

  • reading
    Earle Birney
    P.K. Page
    Raymond Souster
    John Robert Colombo
  • director
    Janet Perlman
    Joyce Borenstein
    Sheldon Cohen
    Veronika Soul
  • design
    Janet Perlman
    Sheldon Cohen
    Veronika Soul
  • animation
    Janet Perlman
    Sheldon Cohen
    Veronika Soul
  • animator
    Joyce Borenstein
  • animation camera
    Alan Ward
    Gilles Tremblay
    Simon Leblanc
  • sound editing
    Bill Graziadei
    Joyce Borenstein
    Paul Demers
    Veronika Soul
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    Michel Descombes
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • producer
    Guy Glover
  • program administrator
    Louise Spence
    Signe Johansson
  • executive producer
    Wolf Koenig

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