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23 November 2006

CBC Signoff animation. Most CBC stations in Canada sign off at sometime during the night, and this is the animation that played in the '90s.→[More:]
This is for all those who don't live in Canada. :) No idea who did it, but it's all watercolours. It starts from Vancouver and heads east. (Note the goat in the Rockies. baaa.) The oil wells are Alberta, the wheat fields Sasatchewan and Manitoba. Then there's Toronto, Ontario, the St Lawrence River, the building with the blue roofs is the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Quebec. A quick pass over New Brunswick, then Nova Scotia, and then there's Newfoundland. Yeah, it skips Nunavut, Victoria, the Yukon and Labrador and and sorta PEI (Prince Edward Island), and the music's pretty bombastic, but it's a country's theme song, so there ya go.

post by: Zack_Replica at: 06:00 | 12 comments

(should read Sakatchewan)

posted by Zack_Replica 23 November | 06:03

oddly, the baby seal clubbings are noticeably absent

posted by Wedge 23 November | 06:39

Very nice!

posted by chewatadistance 23 November | 07:42

For some reason the blue roofs screamed "Chateau Laurier" at me and not "Parliment".

I found that one to be a bit nauseating...the old one was better.

posted by LunaticFringe 23 November | 08:15

Saskatchewan. (Sorry, had to.)

posted by typewriter 23 November | 09:26

That reminds me of the times I'd be in Vancouver or Toronto and business and fall asleep with the TV on and wake to hear "O Canada". After the anthem was over, I'd go back to sleep and dream I was Canadian.

posted by birdherder 23 November | 09:49

I'd guess John Wheldon, but I'm probably wrong.

Really nice animation though. Makes me proud to be Canadian. Oh wait a minute. *Looks for ways to add "Canadian" to list of citizenships*. Jeeze, it was easier when we just had an Empire.

posted by GeckoDundee 23 November | 10:26

oddly, the baby seal clubbings are noticeably absent

*sniffs bait, grabs it for squid-jiggin'*

posted by hangashore 23 November | 10:47

I've seen this more recently than the '90's. It's a great one.
Now I think they have some crappy one of a bunch of people painting a canvas or something.

I loved the older, 1970's one the most. It had the obligatory swooping helicopter shots of wheat fields and thrashers, Niagara falls, etc. but it also had the Olympics high-jump guy and ended with the girl hugging her drool-faced little brother at a hockey game.
That's the one they used to show in movie theaters before the show. Remember that? Freaky.

posted by chococat 23 November | 11:15

That's the one I was referring to! I remember it well...

posted by LunaticFringe 23 November | 11:41

that animation looks a lot like bill plympton...

posted by syntax 23 November | 11:50

Saskatchewan. (Sorry, had to.)
posted by typewriter 23 November | 09:26

Yeah. Replaced the letter instead of adding it. grr.

The hockey one is vague, but I *kinda* remember it. Can't find it anywhere, though.
I always thought that Plympton was American, myself. I searched the National Film Board, but couldn't find it, though I still think it may be them, as there have been some shorts that haven't been credited to their designers.

I really think that the first quote from the youtube link says quite a bit...
"What I love about this version, besides the glorious violin section and the imagery, is that it conveys patriotism and love of country without nationalism.

Loving Canada does not require not loving some place else."

To that I would also add the sum of all the different parts making up the whole; simultaneously, differently and equally.

posted by Zack_Replica 24 November | 04:58

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