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The Pony

1955 37 min
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This short film tells the heart-warming Christmas story of two Saskatchewan farm children and a pony named Pancho. There’s no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but with will and heart they prove that one can be found.

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This short film tells the heart-warming Christmas story of two Saskatchewan farm children and a pony named Pancho. There’s no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but with will and heart they prove that one can be found.

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  • director
    Lawrence Cherry
  • script
    Lawrence Cherry
  • producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • photography
    John Foster
  • sound
    E.C.H. Muir
  • editing
    Fergus McDonell
  • sound editing
    Dino Di Campo
  • re-recording
    Clarke Daprato
  • narrator
    Stanley Jackson
  • music
    Eldon Rathburn
  • cast
    Helen Bothwell
    William Cornish
    Norman Ericson
    Georgia Gibbs
    Frank Hanson
    Mary McNeil
    George Russell

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