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Poets on Film No. 1

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1977 8 min
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This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Kite Is a Victim" by Leonard Cohen, "Klaxon" by James Reaney and George Johnston’s "The Bulge."

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This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Kite Is a Victim" by Leonard Cohen, "Klaxon" by James Reaney and George Johnston’s "The Bulge."

Literature and Language - Canada Literature and Language All subjects
  • design
    Bozenna Heczko
    Elizabeth Lewis
    Gayle Thomas
    Janet Perlman
  • animation
    Bozenna Heczko
    Elizabeth Lewis
    Gayle Thomas
    Janet Perlman
  • direction
    Bozenna Heczko
    Elizabeth Lewis
    Gayle Thomas
    Janet Perlman
  • reading
    John Robert Colombo
    Paul Hecht
    James Reaney
  • animation camera
    Raymond Dumas
    Jacques Avoine
    Simon Leblanc
    Richard Moras
  • sound editing
    Gloria Demers
    Bernard Bordeleau
    Bill Graziadei
  • music
    Karl Duplessis
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
    Michel Descombes
  • producer
    Guy Glover
  • program administrator
    Signe Johansson
    Louise Spence
  • executive producer
    Wolf Koenig

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