Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit

200814 min 10 secFilm: Animation, Fiction

G

Direction: JoDee Samuelson

Production: Kent Martin

Script: JoDee Samuelson

Uncle Bob is getting up in years, but manages quite well, thank you. Then an unexpected illness changes everything. Suddenly he's scooped out of his safe and familiar surroundings and deposited inside the foreign and chaotic world of the hospital. Here the once self-reliant Uncle Bob becomes vulnerable and dependent.

Uncle Bob's hospital stay is fraught with difficulties. Day in day out he is inundated by a constant barrage of intruders, from the nurse who wakes him up to take his sleeping pill, to well-meaning visitors who bring him food he can't eat.

As his hospital stay lengthens, Uncle Bob's spirits and health decline, and his old life becomes a distant memory. It isn't until one very special visitor reminds Uncle Bob just how much he is loved and needed that he finds a reason to get well.

Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit is a charming look at the importance of cheer, hope and love in the healing process.

Subject categories


  • Health and Medicine > Coping with Illness and DyingSeniors
  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life
  • Seniors > Health and Illness
  • Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
  • Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
  • Health/Personal Development > Disease PreventionHuman Growth and Development
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values

Credits


animator
JoDee Samuelson
writer
JoDee Samuelson
director
JoDee Samuelson
producer
Kent Martin
narration
Stan Carew
sound design
Normand Roger
music
Pierre Yves Drapeau
voice
Rob MacLean
Laurel Smyth
sound mixer
Jean Paul Vialard
Shelley Craig
sound recording
Alexander Rosborough
David B. Ward
digital image consultant
Susan Gourley
Pierre Plouffe
online editor
Denis Pilon
translation
France Gladu
titles
JoDee Samuelson
technical coordinator
Steve Hallé
production supervisor
Patricia Coughran
centre administrator
John William Lutz
production coordination
Vanessa Larsen
Stephanie Coolen
marketing manager
Amy Stewart Gallant