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Summer Legend
19868 min 19 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Françoise Hartmann
Production: Eunice MacaulayDouglas MacDonald
Script: Françoise Hartmann
Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the turn of the century. Since then, Summer Legend has been retold many times, but never more beautifully than in this colourful animated interpretation. It tells of the Mi’kmaq people in the cold white dawning of their world, and of how Glooscap battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Animation based on LiteratureChildren's StoriesIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Atlantic RegionLegends and Literature
- Literature and Language - Canada > Children's MaterialsIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Studies > ArtsIdentity/SocietyIssues and Contemporary Challenges
Credits
- director
- Françoise Hartmann
- script
- Françoise Hartmann
- animation
- Françoise Hartmann
- producer
- Eunice Macaulay
- executive producer
- Douglas MacDonald
- camera
- Pierre Landry
- Raymond Dumas
- sound
- Louis Hone
- sound editing
- Julian Olson
- Diane Le Floc'h
- music editing
- Julian Olson
- Diane Le Floc'h
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- Tex Konig
- voice
- Margo Mackinnon Baculis
- music
- Keith Tedman