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Sounds From Our People: Gabriel Goes to the City
197928 min 49 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Alanis Obomsawin
Production: Dorothy Courtois (National Film Board of Canada)Doug MacDonald (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Alanis Obomsawin
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
This original programme was made for young children. It is the final episode of a six-part television series on the traditions of Indigenous people in Canada created especially for younger children by Alanis Obomsawin to celebrate UNESCO's International Year of the Child (1979).
Gabriel Goes to the City: Alanis Obomsawin narrates as children learn of the traditions and life of Gabriel, a Cree boy from Fort George, James Bay. The Northern Cree "Walking Out Ceremony" is one such tradition. This is followed by scenes of Gabriel touring Old Montreal.
Alanis Obomsawin then introduces the short animated film One Little Indian (Grant Munro, 16 min 02 s, 1954) and children learn about traffic safety.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > ChildrenLifestylesQuébec and Ontario
- Social Issues > Urban Life
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Cree
- Roles & Relationships > Family Life & Parenting
Credits
- director
- Alanis Obomsawin
- editing
- Ted Remerowski
- photography
- Barry Perles
- Laval Fortier
- camera assistant
- Susan Trow
- Serge Lafortune
- René Daigle
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- Alain Jacques
- Michel Hazel
- location manager
- Jean Savard
- sound editor
- Bill Graziadei
- re-recording
- Adrian Croll
- series post-production coordinator
- Ted Remerowski
- administrator
- Bob Spence
- producer
- Dorothy Courtois
- executive producer
- Doug MacDonald
- commentary
- Alanis Obomsawin