1. Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer

1977 · ★ 7.5

A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in…

2. Canada Vignettes: The Horse

1978 · ★ 0.0

This animated short illustrates how at one time horses provided man with unprecedented mobility and …

3. Canada Vignettes: News Canada

1978 · ★ 6.3

Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.

4. Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic

1978 · ★ 5.8

An animated vignette about the role of Thomas Spence in the formation and demise of the Republic of …

5. Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson

1978 · ★ 5.5

A humorous account of the pioneering journey of Lady Frances Simpson, along with her piano, from Eng…

6. Canada Vignettes: Holidays

1978 · ★ 9.0

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

7. Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs

1978 · ★ 6.3

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.

8. Canada Vignettes: Trees

1978 · ★ 6.5

Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal cha…

9. Canada Vignettes: Logger

1978 · ★ 6.3

The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

10. Canada Vignettes: Faces

1978 · ★ 5.6

Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.

11. Canada Vignettes: Toronto

1978 · ★ 5.4

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

12. Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland

1978 · ★ 5.4

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.

13. Canada Vignettes: Skier

1978 · ★ 0.0

In this short vignette, skier Kathy Kreiner prepares for and participates in her Olympic gold-medal …

14. Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook

1978 · ★ 6.0

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts h…

15. Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

1978 · ★ 7.0

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

16. Canada Vignettes: Port Royal

1978 · ★ 7.0

This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an …

17. Canada Vignettes: Trading Post

1978 · ★ 6.0

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and I…

18. Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon

1978 · ★ 7.0

This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.

19. Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

1978 · ★ 6.0

Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film dep…

20. Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

1978 · ★ 8.0

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourn…

21. Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

1978 · ★ 5.4

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships b…

22. Canada Vignettes: The Performer

1978 · ★ 8.0

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian na…

23. Canada Vignettes: Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton

1978 · ★ 0.0

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with trad…

24. Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

1978 · ★ 8.0

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours…

25. Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales

1978 · ★ 5.7

A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its…

26. Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable

1978 · ★ 10.0

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to …

27. Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille

1978 · ★ 9.0

A short history of one of the traditional dances of Acadia--the quadrille.

28. Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters

1978 · ★ 5.8

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

29. Canada Vignettes: December Lights

1979 · ★ 7.5

Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas…

30. Canada Vignettes: Alouette

1979 · ★ 5.0

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

31. Canada Vignettes: Moccasins

1979 · ★ 5.2

Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric d…

32. Canada Vignettes: Dance

1979 · ★ 5.7

The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm …

33. Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

1979 · ★ 7.3

A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colom…

34. Canada Vignettes: Instant French

1979 · ★ 6.5

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

35. Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth

1979 · ★ 6.5

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tun…

36. Canada Vignettes: Wop May

1979 · ★ 6.3

This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

37. Canada Vignettes: The Egg

1979 · ★ 6.2

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette s…

38. Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe

1979 · ★ 5.7

This carved ritual pipe from the Plains First Nations culture depicts the act of creation, alive in …

39. Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat

1979 · ★ 5.0

The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.

40. Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

1979 · ★ 9.0

In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, th…

41. Canada Vignettes: Unity Pole

1979 · ★ 0.0

This vignette shows the ceremonial totem-pole raising by the Nisgha Nation at Ayanish.

42. Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane

1979 · ★ 9.0

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gl…

43. Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946

1979 · ★ 8.0

A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.

44. Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine

1979 · ★ 8.0

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted…

45. Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels

1979 · ★ 9.0

This short fiction film tells the love story between a young anglophone and a young francophone who …

46. Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

1979 · ★ 6.8

A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her bo…

47. Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

1979 · ★ 8.0

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring o…

48. Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1

1979 · ★ 9.0

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring o…

49. Canada Vignettes: McIntosh

1979 · ★ 7.0

A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.

50. Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds

1980 · ★ 10.0

This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aeroba…

51. Canada Vignettes: Calliope

1980 · ★ 8.0

A vignette on the travelling calliope (also known as steam organ), a musical instrument that produce…

52. Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls

1980 · ★ 8.0

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music…

53. Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold

1980 · ★ 9.0

This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy ci…

54. Canada Vignettes: Arctic Mission

1980 · ★ 5.0

A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean.

55. Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape

1980 · ★ 8.0

A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean.

56. Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death

1980 · ★ 0.0

A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention t…

57. Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian

1980 · ★ 10.0

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of h…

58. Canada Vignettes: Countdown

1981 · ★ 7.0

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by th…

59. Canada Vignettes: Ice

1982 · ★ 6.5

Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.

60. Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers

1984 · ★ 7.0

A "cat and dog fight" film that also reminds us to keep emergency numbers close to our telephones.

61. Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada

1985 · ★ 6.3

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

62. Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud

1985 · ★ 7.0

A vignette using animation and live action to depict mussel farmers digging in the mud through the i…

63. Canada Vignettes: The Move

1985 · ★ 10.0

In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved a…