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Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit
200814 min 10 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
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.
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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