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The Drag
19658 min 37 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Carlos Marchiori
Production: Wolf KoenigRobert Verrall
Script: Guy Glover
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare.
A colour cartoon about tobacco addiction and the difficulty of breaking the habit. This case history of a chain smoker--told on a psychiatrist's couch, with the patient's recollections amusingly illustrated--explains the whole psychology of the smoking habit and the part that cigarette advertising plays in making it stick. The film has an entertaining appeal for young people.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
Credits
- direction
- Carlos Marchiori
- design
- Carlos Marchiori
- animation
- Carlos Marchiori
- music
- Donald Douglas
- camera
- Murray Fallen
- sound editing
- Karl Duplessis
- sound re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- research
- Stanley Jackson
- commentary
- Guy Glover
- producer
- Wolf Koenig
- Robert Verrall
Awards
- Chris Certificate Award International Film and Video Festival
- Notable Film AwardCalvin Workshop Awards
- Silver MedalInternational Festival of Red Cross and Health Films