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Poets on Film No. 2

Janet Perlman, Joyce Borenstein, Sheldon Cohen & Veronika Soul

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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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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Literature and Language - Canada

Literature and Language

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Credits

• 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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