NFB Collection
The Magic Quilt
198512 min 52 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Bettina Matzkuhn
Production: George JohnsonJohn Taylor
Visual gags, humour, sound effects, live action and cut-out and embroidery animation combine to make this an enchanting parable of good will and understanding. A group of children finds a magic quilt that is their passport to a voyage of discovery. They step inside the quilt and as they travel through its velvet farmlands and satin cities, they experience the multiculturalism of Canada. The quilt is torn and the magic broken when a quarrel breaks out. Once the quilt is repaired and harmony restored, the children have learned that patience and goodwill are needed to mend and maintain quilts, friendships, and nations.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > ChildrenCultural Diversity
- Crafts > Textile Crafts
Credits
- director
- Bettina Matzkuhn
- animation
- Bettina Matzkuhn
- producer
- George Johnson
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- cinematography
- Jack Long
- Robert McLachlan
- sound
- Robert Young
- Charles Wilkinson
- editing
- Charles Wilkinson
- sound editing
- Eileen Hoeter
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- music
- Ken Hemmerick
- cast
- Lynn Daley
- Vanessa Drake-Johnson
- Luke Laconde
- René Mankuma
- Brenna Quan
Awards
- Ruby Slipper Award for Best Animation Film given by the Children's JuryInternational Children's Film and Television Festival