NFB Collection
What the Hell's Going On Up There?
197927 min 40 secFilm: Documentary, Animation
Direction: Derek Lamb
Production: Derek Lamb
Produced by the NFB for the Canadian Department of External Affairs.
A disgruntled Uncle Sam complains that nobody listens to him anymore, and what's more, he doesn't even know what's going on up there. "I thought we were living on the top floor," he mutters. He expedites the ubiquitous Marshall Efron on a fact-finding mission north of the border. Part satire, part serious, this film sets out to package Canada for American consumption, with some of the clichés thrown in. Contrasting with the decidedly lighter side of the film are interviews with well-known Canadians such as Marshall McLuhan, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, John Kenneth Galbraith, Raoul Duguay, and Pierre Bourgault.
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Subject categories
- Canada - Images of a Country > Identity
Credits
- director
- Derek Lamb
- producer
- Derek Lamb
- executive producer
- Derek Lamb
- photography
- Barry Perles
- David Geddes
- Seth Schneidman
- Don Virgo
- animation camera
- Jacques Avoine
- Richard Moras
- sound
- Michel Hazel
- Ralph Parker
- Raymond Marcoux
- editing
- Fraser Steele
- Ian Ferguson
- sound editing
- Michel Guay
- Jackie Newell
- animation
- Yossi Abolafia
- Don Arioli
- Robert Doucet
- Les Drew
- Sidney Goldsmith
- Eunice Macaulay
- Janet Perlman
- John Weldon
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- music
- Norman Bigras
- Larry Crosley
- Donald Douglas