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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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Subject categories
- 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