Ten: The Magic Number

197312 min 41 secFilm: Animation

Direction: Barrie Nelson

Production: Wolf Koenig

Script: Don Arioli

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Metric Commission of Canada.

An amusing introduction to the metric system, presented through the person of George, a tropical fish fancier who is stymied in estimating the weight of his aquarium because he doesn't remember what a cubic inch of water weighs in ounces. How he is jolted into the metric age, and how he discovers its advantages, makes an amusing cartoon screen adventure for anyone who sees George's problem but, like him, resists the idea of change to a simpler way of figuring the size and weight of things.

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  • Sciences > AnimationMetric System

Credits


director
Barrie Nelson
animation
Barrie Nelson
producer
Wolf Koenig
script
Don Arioli
animation camera
Richard Moras
Pierre Provost
Simon Leblanc
editing
Lisa Fruchtman
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
voice
Dorothy Courtois
George Geertsen
Don Arioli
Guy Glover
Esther Shuster
music
Karl Duplessis