NFB Collection
Happy Birthday
19741 minFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Lynn Smith
Production: Wolf Koenig
Script: Lynn Smith
Produced by the NFB for the Department of National Health and Welfare.
In this animated short, a perceptive young boy, at a birthday party for his uncle, notices the unfortunate result of the man's smoking habit.
The film is one of a trio of animated shorts by Lynn Smith that form an anti-smoking campaign, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of Health and Welfare Canada. Although this particular campaign was originally aimed at children, the three films have been shown on TV nationwide.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
Credits
- director
- Lynn Smith
- script
- Lynn Smith
- storyboard
- Lynn Smith
- design
- Lynn Smith
- animation
- Lynn Smith
- producer
- Wolf Koenig
- sound editing
- Lynn Smith
- voice
- Robert Fortier
- Signe Johansson
- Malca Gillson
- Diane Courtois
- George Geertsen
- David Bairstow
- Don Arioli
- Ben Rubin
- Joey Rubin
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- camera
- Jacques Avoine
- colour rendering
- Maggie Aspland
- unit administrator
- Janet Preston
- executive producer
- Wolf Koenig
Awards
- Award for Best CommercialInternational Animated Film Festival