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Duration: 15 15 min

Genre: Educational

Creator: NFBC

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Canadian animation. A rocking chair follows the life of some guy and the landscape around it. Dull., Folk music of French Canada accompanies scenes of a rocking chair as it endures the life cycle of a family and ends up in a museum. Evokes the seasons of the year and the seasons of life. Animated.

Complete Record: Canadian animation. A rocking chair follows the life of some guy and the landscape around it. Dull., Using colorful pastel animation, this film traces the life of a rocking chair from its creation, to its place of honor in the home of a Quebec family and its exhibition at a museum of modern art. Here, it provides a juxtaposition of old and new coming to life accompanied by French Canadian folk music and nostalgic visuals. , An old rocking chair hand-crafted from the trunk of a tree links past values with modern progress in this visual folk tale. Colorful animation and French Canadian folk music portray the experiences of the chair: crafted and owned by a Quebec farm family; discarded when broken; and restored and housed in an art museum. Received academy award for animation., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.