The Wondrous World of Greenthumb's Garden - To Bee or Not to Bee

200323 min 40 secFilm: Animation, Children's film

Direction: Chris MalazdrewiczFrançois Côté

Production: Caroline R. Maria

Script: Joan ScottDon Arioli

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.

The garden residents are delighted to meet a new neighbour, a fun-loving worker bee named Millie. She's grown tired of all the hard work being a busy bee in a very busy hive. Greenthumb and the others convince Millie how important her job is, back at the hive. Why, if all the bees stopped working, there'd be no more flowers! And how much the other bees must miss her. Millie bid a fond farewell to her new friends and returns happily to the hive. Greenthumb's proud when a magazine wants to publish pictures of his beautiful flower bulbs. But he soon discovers the bulbs have disappeared. Headless flower stems everywhere!! Turns out Glory's the culprit. Lucy explains that buds are baby flowers and that without them there would be no more flowers, then no more pollen, then no more seeds to make more buds next year. And pretty soon, there'd be no garden left at all!

Subject categories

  • Plants > Flowers
  • Animals > Insects

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
Don Arioli
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