NFB Collection
The Owl and the Lemming: An Eskimo Legend
19715 min 59 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Co Hoedeman
Production: Pierre Moretti
Script: Bill Davies
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the co-operation of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
The owl and the lemming in this animated film are short-legged, plumply stuffed puppets made of sealskin by Inuit artists. The accompanying song and voices are in Inuktitut, although the legend is narrated in English. It is a story that all audiences, especially children, will enjoy. Moreover, it preserves on film an example of Inuit folklore that may in time disappear.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Animation based on LiteratureIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Children's MaterialsInuit Traditional Stories
- Animals > Indigenous ConcernsStories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Traditional stories
- English Language Arts > Children's Stories/Fables
Credits
- direction
- Co Hoedeman
- set design
- Germaine Arnaktauyok
- puppet design
- Germaine Arnaktauyok
- song
- Eric Tagoona
- song - interpretation
- Patsy Kowtak
- Susan Tagoona
- Thomas Kudloo
- animation assistant
- Michèle Pauzé
- editing
- Yves Leduc
- commentary
- Bill Davies
- reading
- Julie Wildman
- music editing
- Maurice Blackburn
- sound recording
- Claude Hazanavicius
- re-recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- producer
- Pierre Moretti