NFB Collection
The Boy Next Door
196218 min 2 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film
Direction: Ernest Reid
Production: Ernest ReidPeter Jones
Script: Ernest Reid
When French-speaking Jacques moves next door to English-speaking Jimmy, each is amazed to find that the other doesn't speak his language. But when it comes to exploring and playing together, language just doesn't seem to matter. Each soon finds himself venturing into the other's language.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > ChildrenEnglish-French Relations
- Literature and Language > Children's Stories
- Children and Youth > Cultural GroupsPeer Relationships
Credits
- director
- Ernest Reid
- producer
- Ernest Reid
- script
- Ernest Reid
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- photography
- John Gunn
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- John Kemeny
- sound recording
- Ron Alexander
- music
- Donald Douglas