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Poets on Film No. 3

Robert Doucet & Françoise Hartmann

1977 6 min

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This short film brings together animated interpretations of 2 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “Perishing Bird” by D.G. Jones, and “Mon école” by Sylvain Garneau.

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This short film brings together animated interpretations of 2 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “Perishing Bird” by D.G. Jones, and “Mon école” by Sylvain Garneau.

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Literature and Language

Literature and Language - Canada

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Credits

• poem
  D.G. Jones
  
  Sylvain Garneau
  
• design
  Robert Doucet
  
  Françoise Hartmann
  
• animation
  Robert Doucet
  
  Françoise Hartmann
  
• direction
  Robert Doucet
  
  Françoise Hartmann
  
• poem - narration
  D.G. Jones
  
  François Tassé
  
• animation camera
  Alan Ward
  
  Simon Leblanc
  
• music
  Karl Duplessis
  
• re-recording
  Jean-Pierre Joutel
  
  Michel Descombes
  
• producer
  Guy Glover
  
• program administrator
  Signe Johansson
  
• executive producer
  Wolf Koenig
  

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