NFB Collection
This Is Your Museum Speaking
197912 min 59 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
Direction: Lynn Smith
Production: David VerrallDerek Lamb
Script: Lynn Smith
Produced by the NFB in co-operation with the National Museums of Canada.
This short animated film tells the story of a night watchman who, with his dog, Fang, discovers that museums are not morgues, that they are very much a part of the community. With humour, the film shows how our present is connected to the past.
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Subject categories
- Arts > Art Galleries and Museums
- History > Museums
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- English Language Arts > Journalism
- Technology Education > Society and Technology
Credits
- director
- Lynn Smith
- animation
- Lynn Smith
- producer
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Derek Lamb
- editing
- Lynn Smith
- David Verrall
- sound editing
- Normand Roger
- music
- Normand Roger
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- voice
- Sandy Sanderson
- Mary Briggs
- Budd Knapp
- Gerald Budner
- Don Arioli
- Peter MacNeill
- Greg Van Riel
- Janet Perlman
- music recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- script
- Lynn Smith
- post-sync effects
- Ken Page
- unit administrator
- Diane Bergeron
Awards
- Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animated FilmYorkton Film Festival
- Certificate for Outstanding AchievementInternational Film Festival
- CIDALC AwardInternational Animated Film Festival
- Public's Grand PrizeInternational Animated Film Festival
- Second Special Jury AwardInternational Animated Film Festival
- Certificate of Merit - Category: Short Subject AnimationInternational Film Festival
- First Prize - Category: Instructional FilmsInternational Animation Festival