NFB Collection
Wheel Meets Friction
19981 min 14 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Claude Cloutier
Production: Thérèse Descary
Script: Claude CloutierSylvain Charbonneau
A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel.
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Subject categories
- Sciences > AnimationChildren's MaterialsPhysicsResearch
- Technology > Invention
- Technology Education > Science and TechnologySociety and Technology
Credits
- director
- Claude Cloutier
- animation
- Claude Cloutier
- producer
- Thérèse Descary
- associate producer
- Marc Bertrand
- script
- Claude Cloutier
- Sylvain Charbonneau
- sound
- Denis Larochelle
- music
- Denis Larochelle
- editing
- José Heppell
- narrator
- Rick Jones
Awards
- Special Mention - Category: Short Film given by the Children's JuryFestival Internacional de Cine Para Ninos - La Matatena
- Award for Best Science clip (Awarded by the Ministère de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie)GO FIGURE! (Téléscience)
- Camerio Award - Category: Best Short Film (13 films series)Carrousel international du film