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The Wondrous World of Greenthumb's Garden - Flower Power
200323 min 40 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Chris MalazdrewiczFrançois Côté
Production: Caroline R. Maria
Script: Joan ScottMichael F. Hamill
Produced by Cinemaria in association with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and TFO-TVOntario, with the financial participation of the Shaw Children's Programming Initiative and with the participation of Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, ACTRA, The Writers Guild of Canada and Technical crew: APVQ.
This title is an acquisition.
Lucy's a little miffed that Greenthumb still treats her like a child. When Glory and Plucky show her a cabbage patch that's being ravaged by some ailment, she seizes the opportunity to show she can solve a problem without her uncle's help. She recognizes the culprit is cabbage moths, but she's puzzled why one cabbage seems to be immune to the insects. Lucy uses all her deductive powers and knowledge of gardening science, but comes up empty... until Plucky innocently notices that the healthy cabbage is the only one growing near a marigold. She'd forgotten that cabbage moths don't like marigolds! By the time Greenthumb arrives, Lucy and the others have transplanted marigolds all over the cabbage patch. Everyone's happy. When Greenthumb's too sick to make his super-duper extra-special tomato sauce to enter in the town's annual food fair, his garden friends join forces to replicate his secret recipe and win the ribbon for him. Meanwhile, Millie Bee is intent on seeing Greenthumb, just for a moment. But Plucky keeps turning her away. When Greenthumb emerges from his nap he tastes the sauce and although they haven't exactly duplicated his secret recipe, it's delicious! Millie finally gets a chance to see Greenthumb and deliver a little bucket of honey she prepared for him - THAT was Greenthumb's secret ingredient! Later that evening, Glory and the others return in triumph from the food fair.
Subject categories
- Food and Food Industries > Cooking and Preparation
- Plants > Pests and Pest Control
Credits
- creator for television
- Caroline R. Maria
- Jean-Guy White
- original concept
- Jean-Guy White
- puppet design
- Jean-Guy White
- assistant director
- Andrew Gryn
- director
- Chris Malazdrewicz
- François Côté
- story
- Joan Scott
- teleplay
- Michael F. Hamill
- Joan Scott
- song - performer
- Sonja Ball
- puppeteer
- Julie Burroughs
- Elliot Gordon
- Joyce Quansah
- Brett Schaenfield
- Millie Tresierra
- technical production
- Gary Theobald
- Cory Horowitz
- technical services
- Gary Theobald Productions Inc.
- director of photography
- Ernst Michel
- technical director
- Michael McGee
- camera operator
- Stefan Kesegi
- sound technician
- Julien Perrotte
- gaffer
- Luc Marineau
- grip
- Éric Benoit
- Éric Tremblay
- props person
- Vincent Deronde
- puppet building
- Jean-Guy White
- Camille McMillan
- Helen Moisan
- Myriam St-Louis
- puppet wrangler
- Camille McMillan
- Helen Moisan
- Myriam St-Louis
- set design
- Jean Gagnon
- set construction
- Double Effet
- educational consultant
- Margie Golick
- production consultant
- Carole Gosselin
- Marcelle Hudon
- research
- Roger Latour
- casting
- Andrew Gryn
- music composer
- Robert Marchand
- Michel Corriveau
- sound design
- Luc Préfontaine
- sound mix
- Luc Préfontaine
- animation
- Franck Maillet
- off-line editing
- Joseph Bohbot
- Josée Trottier
- online editing
- Jason Levy
- executive editor
- Caroline R. Maria
- production assistant
- Derryl Burke
- Jacqui Kingston
- production coordinator
- Benoit Delpech
- production accountant
- Richard C. Fortin
- executive producer
- Caroline R. Maria