NFB Collection
One Little Indian
195416 min 2 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Grant Munro
Production: Colin LowTom Daly
Script: Stanley Jackson
A puppet film that wraps up some traffic safety rules in an absorbing story about a young Indigenous boy who pays his first visit to a big city. Even though Magic Bow is endowed with magic gifts and thrills the rodeo audience with his act, the whirl of traffic outside the arena leaves him completely bewildered. From kindly city folk he learns some basic safety precautions.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Safety > Children's SafetyRoad Traffic
Credits
- director
- Grant Munro
- producer
- Colin Low
- Tom Daly
- commentary
- Stanley Jackson
- photography
- Herb Taylor
- editing
- Douglas Tunstell
- sound editing
- Don Wellington
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
Awards
- Honourable Mention - Category: Non-theatrical ShortsGenie Awards
- Recognition of MeritAnnual Golden Reel Film Festival - Film Council of America
- Certificate of Merit - Second Award - Category: Artistic AchievementAnnual Film Festival
- First Prize - Bronze Plaque - Category: Traffic and TransportationNational Committee on Films for Safety
- First Prize - Silver Medal - Category: Abstract FilmsInternational Film Festival
- Great Cup of the Province of Genoa "For one of the two best films presented for the first time at a festival"International Film Festival