The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop

19722 min 53 secFilm: Animation, Children's film

Direction: Rhoda LeyerLes Drew

Production: Robert Verrall

The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop

An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.

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Subject categories

  • Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on LiteratureLegends, Myths, and Tales
  • English Language Arts > Children's Stories/Fables
  • Media Education > Film Animation
  • History and Citizenship Education > Neolithic Civilization to the Renaissance

Credits

director
Rhoda Leyer
Les Drew
producer
Robert Verrall
animation camera
Simon Leblanc
Pierre Provost
Jacques Avoine
sound
Karl Duplessis
music
Karl Duplessis
editing
Les Drew
animation
Rhoda Leyer
narrator
Rhoda Leyer
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel