NFB Collection
The Man, the Snake and the Fox
197811 min 58 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film
Direction: Tony Snowsill
Production: Tony Snowsill
Script: Basil Johnston
Produced for the NFB by Direction Films for the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
This title is an acquisition.
This film is a dramatization of a traditional Ojibwa legend; it is told to a group of children. As the story unfolds, the characters played by puppets assume increasingly human characteristics. The moral of the fable: do not make promises that cannot be kept.
Availability
Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Children's MaterialsIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Legends and LiteratureQuébec and Ontario
Credits
- director
- Tony Snowsill
- producer
- Tony Snowsill
- script
- Basil Johnston
- camera
- M. Jackson-Samuels
- sound
- Peter Shewchuk
- Terry Cooke
- editing
- Christine Welsh
Awards
- Best Art DirectionAnnual American Indian Film Festival
- Best Short FilmAnnual American Indian Film Festival