The Hoarder

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1969

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A cut-out animation telling without narration the Indian legend about a greedy blue jay who steals everything in sight, including the sun, which brings troubles to the world and to himself. , Follows, through animation, the adventures of a greedy bird as he steals from other birds and eventually takes down the sun, leaving the earth darkened and causing all the living things to wilt and die. Concludes with the intervention of a small bird who helps the greedy one restore the sun and return all of the stolen articles.

Complete Record: A Birdland fantasy, by animation artist Evelyn Lambart, about a bluejay who takes whatever his beak can grasp and carry. Into his secret cache go berries, birds’ eggs, nests and all. Even the sun in the sky is unsafe from his consuming greed. But, as in her film Fine Feathers, there is a moral tucked away. The bluejay learns a lesson, and Birdland returns to normal. Suitable for primary school level

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leGGBO6fdc0

Metadata Source:YouTube

3 users have this film:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, National Film Board of Canada, New York Public Library

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