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Grammar and Language Forms (6)

  • "CONTACT" Requiem for a Word
    "CONTACT" Requiem for a Word
    Olivier D. Asselin 2020 7 min
    An investigation into how language is changing in the age of COVID-19. The complete upheaval of social relationships today is leading to the reinterpretation of certain terms, which have suddenly taken on a fatal connotation. This film is a funeral mass in memory of the word “contact.”
  • In a Sugar Shack
    In a Sugar Shack
    Michel Moreau 1968 2 min
    This short about a maple sugar cabin may be used to stimulate vocabulary development. A silent film.
  • Korean Alphabet
    Korean Alphabet
    Kim In Tae 1967 7 min
    This short animation is a colourful introduction to the Korean alphabet. The film, which marries visuals by Kim In Tae, a young Korean filmmaker training in the NFB’s Animation Studio, and synthetic sound by Norman McLaren, was made to teach the alphabet to Korean children, but its slick graphics and modern soundtrack will appeal to anyone.
  • La terre d’amitié (English Version)
    La terre d’amitié (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1978 28 min
    "The commune of Gençay, in Haut-Poitou, invites you to an evening of music at the Dognon.” Singer Huguette Compagnon describes the prejudices faced by speakers of the Poitevin dialect. Ethnologist Michel Valière talks about his fieldwork and explains the urgency of preserving cultural diversity in France and around the world.
  • Mr. Symbol Man
    Mr. Symbol Man
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    Bruce Moir  &  Bob Kingsbury 1974 49 min
    "Blissymbols" are giving children without speech a joyous new means of communication. This film tells the story of a remarkable man, Australian Charles K. Bliss, who invented a symbol language (pictographs) originally as a means of overcoming the barrier of differing languages, and then found that it has an even greater, more rewarding application when used with speech-handicapped children. This is witnessed in Toronto and Montréal, where the Blissymbols are being used.
  • Sequence and Story
    Sequence and Story
    Don White 1983 5 min
    In this film a group of children manipulates reality using a series of photographs of their own activities. As they lay out the photos in different sequences, the story of their day changes. Simple, realistic dialogue and a combination of live action and still photographs capture the viewer's imagination.