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The Pony

Lawrence Cherry

1955 37 min

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This short film tells the heart-warming Christmas story of two Saskatchewan farm children and a pony named Pancho. There’s no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but with will and heart they prove that one can be found.

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This short film tells the heart-warming Christmas story of two Saskatchewan farm children and a pony named Pancho. There’s no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but with will and heart they prove that one can be found.

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Credits

• director
  Lawrence Cherry
  
• script
  Lawrence Cherry
  
• producer
  Nicholas Balla
  
• photography
  John Foster
  
• sound
  E.C.H. Muir
  
• editing
  Fergus McDonell
  
• sound editing
  Dino Di Campo
  
• re-recording
  Clarke Daprato
  
• narrator
  Stanley Jackson
  
• music
  Eldon Rathburn
  
• cast
  Helen Bothwell
  
  William Cornish
  
  Norman Ericson
  
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Frank Hanson
  
  Mary McNeil
  
  George Russell
  

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